QuickTime To Get Boost From "More Accurate" Statistics

Posted by pudge on Monday June 24, 2002 @06:28AM from the statistics-is-as-statistics-does dept.

Justen writes "Nielsen is expected to release a new set of ratings for media players on July 1. Apple lobbied the firm to use new methods to form usage statistics. The new methods are expected to dramatically increase the reported market share of QuickTime. Nielsen says it doesn't reflect a dramatic jump in actual installations, just a more accurate picture of what's been there all along. The article also mentions the new beta of QuickTime 6 and its support for MPEG-4, ahead of Real and Microsoft."

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MPEG-4 support by reverius · 2002-06-24 06:34 · Score: 0, Troll

Supposedly Quicktime 6 supports MPEG-4... but that is presumably in the QuickTime file format.

Any word on whether it will play back MPEG-4 movies in the AVI file format (aka DivX 4 and 5, OpenDivx, etc)? Those are quite common, and I have many.

I'd like to use the QuickTime player rather than the WindowsMedia player on Windows, and this support would allow me to do that...