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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.
MS Talks... Apple ships.
Nice job Apple (for once.)
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"Whether you use a Macintosh or Windows-based PC, you can harness the power of QuickTime Pro for media authoring and play back of high-quality audio and video. All for just $29.99."
More Info: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/upgrade/
I don't know why they don't give Pro away on new desktops. You drop $1500 on a powermac and they want $30 more?
Bleh ... let the "Icon on desktop, system tray, quick launch menu, start menu war" begin as well.
All pale compared to the Retarded User Interface Competition, where everyone wins, except the user.
You know MPEG-2 support was promised in a QT6 FAQ. I wonder why it was quietly dropped.
My theory on OGG is that it will be implemented once there is a 1.0 release (which is now in CVS) and a spec. I don't think Apple would release a new iTunes with a beta codec that they know will change. For know I just use the handy quicktime component and my oggs play fine in iTunes. The iPod is a diifferent story. They might add it in as software but I don't think there are currently any chips that decode OGG in hardware. Although, I could be wrong about that.
Zambozay! My brain must've been eatin' a sandwich!
Actually, quicktime seems to work quite well on linux via, for example, mplayer, with the sole exception that I've run into of SVQ3 (Sorenson, of course). SVQ1 is even working now, with optimized code (also appearing in FFMPEG) based on the reverse engineering done by the folks working on Xine. Oddly enough, the specifications page for QT6 mentiones SVQ2 and SVQ3, but implies that it DOESN'T support SVQ1...
If the release of QT6 means that MPEG4 will become the "default" codec for QuickTime movies as time goes on (as some posts, As well as several of the QuickTime pages at Apple, are hinting), the "quicktime barrier" to video on linux will all but disappear, since as far as I can tell just about every variant of MPEG4 works on Linux in some form or another. I suppose this depends on how the dispute between Apple and Sorenson goes...(anybody heard anything about that lately?) and how long it takes someone to work out how to interpret the type of what I assume are "pointer files" or something of the sort on the previously mentioned apple Quicktime Mpeg4 page (mplayer seems to have trouble decoding them...)
Of course, somewhere in here I should insert the obligatory comment about Ogg Theora and how I wish they'd hurry up and get the mailing lists working and get a working prototype that I can test, but as I can't think of what to say, I won't....
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