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QuickTime 6 Is Out
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.
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.
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.
"God fights on the side with the best artillery." - Napoleon, Marshal of France - speaking truth to power
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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Have you tried:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtcomponents ?
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.
Sailing over the event horizon
Apple released on the same day MPEG-LA announced licensing fees for MPEG-4 Visual, Systems and MPEG-J patents. Details here.
The current VLC is still broke with the final QT6. Maybe they'll release an updated one soon. They seem to blame Apple.
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...
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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Yep. It works fine. Just do:
crossover/bin/wine.sh QuickTimeInstaller.exe
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.
It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
They already have.
It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
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.
MPEG-4 has quite a bit to do with QuickTime.