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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.

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  1. Hee Hee... So much for MS's Thunder by skribble · · Score: 5, Insightful

    MS Talks... Apple ships.

    Nice job Apple (for once.)

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  2. Re:Key won't work by Snuffub · · Score: 5, Funny
    "Just remember that your QuickTime 5 key won't work with QuickTime 6."

    wow this is a new low, slashdotters not only dont read the linked material they also refuse to read the three sentences that are describing the story.

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  3. Re:Key won't work by Lysander+Luddite · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "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?

  4. Re:Does anyone actually use windows ME? by zangdesign · · Score: 5, Funny

    Even Win95 users are laughing at you for that. ME should have been called "Mistaken Edition" for combining the worst aspects of Win98 and Win2K into one horrible mishmash that makes Win3.1 users feel superior.

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  5. Re:Just great... by reaper20 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

  6. 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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  7. Quicktime 5 was retracted due to faulty research.. by Bigger+R · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...and Quicktime 7, though it would be very unstable, is suspected to exist.

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  8. Anti Slashdot Effect by Peyna · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ah, nothing like seeing Apple/Akamai stand up to slashdot like noone else can. I had use Internet Explorer instead of Mozilla just so I could see what the download speed was (mozilla doesn't display final speed when download is complete). 10 MB/s (that's Megabytes). Talk about no slashdot effect at all!

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

    Have you tried:

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

  10. Re:O. G. G. by pigpen_ · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

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  11. 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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  12. 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.

  13. Re:bad news for Linux? by imr · · Score: 5, Funny

    without all of the messy command line mucking about that is necessary for multimedia under Linux.
    what are you talking about?
    mplayer -aop list=resample:fout=2 -vo xv -dvd 1 -gui is quite straightforward and every new user coming from a GUI environment would find it quite easily. It's interactive, it's intuitive, it's pretty and it's fun. Like a gui.
    OK, OK, i admit, I've actually grown a few extra fingers ...

  14. 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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  15. 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.