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QuickTime 6 Is Out

Posted by pudge on from the now-i-want-ac3-support-darnit dept.

flamingnight writes "If you go to Apple's QuickTime page, you'll notice that QuickTime 6 has been released. No mention of QT 5 anywhere on the site. Features include the long-awaited MPEG-4 support, 50+ input/output formats, and plenty of A/V codecs and video effects (see Apple - QuickTime - Specifications for a full list)." It's available for Mac OS 8/9, Mac OS X 10.1.3+, and Windows 98/2000/NT/Me/XP (does anyone actually use Windows Me?). Just remember that your QuickTime 5 key won't work with QuickTime 6.

18 of 443 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Key won't work by Silverhammer · · Score: 3, Informative
    From this page:
    Because QuickTime 6 includes royalty-bearing technologies, a new QuickTime Pro key is required to unlock Pro functionality in QuickTime 6.
  2. Re:Great... by blakestah · · Score: 3, Informative

    1) Install xine, use it as the default for quicktime movies in your browser. This default works for most
    things.

    2) Install WINE and use it to play other stuff encoded in the latest and greatest proprietary formats that only the real QuickTime understands.

    Also, you could substitute mplayer for xine and get the same success rate.

  3. does anyone actually use Windows Me? by N8F8 · · Score: 3, Informative

    does anyone actually use Windows Me?

    Yes, a whole bunch of people, but they think they are running Windows 2000. I've had to break the bad news to four people so far when I helped them fix their computers. Great MS marketing. Millenium? 2000? whats the difference.

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  4. No Nags ever again by 3ryon · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here's how to get rid of the QT nag screens. QT will nag you the first time it's launched each day (or some increment of time). When you choose "Later" it sets a value in the registry to remind you tomorrow.

    So, set your clock forward about twenty years (make sure you close any meeting reminder software first) and then launch QT. Tell it "Later" and then set your clock back. Haven't tested this with QT6, but it worked with 5.

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  5. Re:Bah! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Have you tried:

    http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtcomponents ?

  6. Re:Bah! by gwernol · · Score: 4, Informative

    Would it have been SOOOOO hard to build in a Vorbis decoder from xiph.org's BSD-licensed reference decorder? HUH? WOULD IT?

    No, it would be easy. Apple publish the full QuickTime APIs. Go to it.

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  7. Re:ogg vorbis by 90XDoubleSide · · Score: 2, Informative
    It's up to Ogg to make a component for QuickTime if they want to, and obviously they don't.

    Anyway, it includes AAC which produces noticebly better sound at smaller file sizes than Vorbis. (It's not free, but the point of QuickTime is that it provides affordable access to some great, commercial codecs; it's great technology, and it's licensed from Dolby, not those MPEG-4 patent owners.)

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  8. MPEG-4 patent licensing out by The+Bastard · · Score: 4, Informative

    Apple released on the same day MPEG-LA announced licensing fees for MPEG-4 Visual, Systems and MPEG-J patents. Details here.

  9. Re:VideoLAN and QT6? by Deltan · · Score: 3, Informative

    The current VLC is still broke with the final QT6. Maybe they'll release an updated one soon. They seem to blame Apple.

  10. Linux can now stream live video to Win/Mac clients by Karpe · · Score: 3, Informative

    Thanks to MPEG4IP MPEG-4 streaming capabilities, from an encoded MPEG-4 file (it has a converter, that can take XviD encoded AVIs and output .mp4), or live Video4Linux encoding. If only they could get rid of the patenting issues completely...

  11. Standalone installer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Don't forget that the standalone installer for QT 6 is at:
    http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/stand alone

    - Zav

  12. Re:Key won't work by bsartist · · Score: 5, Informative

    the 30$ I paid the first time doesn't cover the royalties?

    Seriously? No, it didn't, because the version you paid for didn't include MPEG 4.

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  13. Re:Crossover? by caseih · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yep. It works fine. Just do:

    crossover/bin/wine.sh QuickTimeInstaller.exe

  14. Re:Hee Hee... So much for MS's Thunder by damiam · · Score: 3, Informative

    Nope. WiMP supports Windows Media Video, which is not MPEG-4. It's a version of the MPEG-4 video codec wrapped in a nonstandard format. MPEG-4 is much more than a video codec, it's a standard for describing multimedia, based on the Quicktime file format. AFAIK, MS doesn't have an MPEG-4 implementation released or even in planning.

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  15. Re:ogg vorbis by damiam · · Score: 3, Informative
    It's up to Ogg to make a component for QuickTime if they want to

    They already have.

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  16. Heres the complete guide to DivX movies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    QT plays some avi but DivX is something different for DivX download DivX Doctor 2 and 3ivx Delta 4, Preview Release 1. To install Delta 4 click on the script and it will automatic install the code for you. Cellulo is a good movie player I use it mostly for play lists for hundreds of split movie files. For DivX that DivX Doctor can't play which are few I use MPlayerOSX. This is all you need no more no less
    http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi? id=148 51&db=mac

    http://doctor.3ivx.com/download.html

    http://www.3ivx.com/download/macos_4_pr1.html

    http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=1 40 41&db=mac

  17. Re; MPEG-4 patent licensing by OrsonBallard · · Score: 4, Informative
    All in all it looks pretty fair. No royalties paid at all from not-for-profit uses and no end user royalties, although these will have to be passed on eventually. As the car salesman says, "Register now and your first 12 months are free!"

    I wonder if history will remember that it was Apple (part of the patent group) that fought the proposal to charge a fee to the end user for every second of every stream viewed? And won.

    Thank-you Apple. Really.

  18. Re:Hee Hee... So much for MS's Thunder by IronChef · · Score: 3, Informative

    MPEG-4 has quite a bit to do with QuickTime.