QuickTime 6.0.2 Released

Hungus writes "QuickTime 6.0.2 is now released from Apple and is available either via web download or via Software Update." I'd seen word that it was available earlier, but it wasn't available for me via Software Update until today. Software Update reports that this release "provides performance and reliability enhancements."

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thanks for the bug report

[tps12]

I'd seen word that it was available earlier, but it wasn't available for me via Software Update until today.

Maybe your internet is broken.

Requires working Perl

[Sulka]

Interestingly, Apple uses Perl for OS X installer scripts. The Quicktime installer requires you have a Perl installation which works without having any environment variables being set using your own .bashrc (or whichever shell you're using). I recently upgraded my perl to 5.8.0 using instructions kindly provided by Apple only to now find out their instructions break Software Update.

I've sent them feedback but haven't yet got a reply. Nice going...

Two notes

[cei]

1. Requires a reboot. You'd think they'd be able to overcome that, especially for an update or patch to libraries...

2. After said restart, my first launch of Mail wants me to re-authorize Keychain to let it use my passwords to get my mail. Why would updating a QuickTime library have anything to do with my security settings?

Re:Two notes

[jezzball]

I see it's been a long time since your last reboot...

When you click "Always", it just means "Always this boot".

Dan

Re:Two notes

[Pengo]

Quicktime has a lot of useful libraries for development. I have seen a lot of people using the built in XML parser as a high level interface in Objective C (from lurking on the newsgroups and looking for my own parser).

Quicktime is installed on all OS X system, it would make sense for apple to use common components.

Maybe it wasn't just quicktime that was updated but also other libs that support quicktime and other things. Who knows.

Cheers

Re:Two notes

[Anonymous Coward]

You are correct. The keychain uses a checksum of the binary in order to ensure that the Mail application trying to access a keychain item today is the same Mail app you, the user, gave authorization to do so yesterday. A software update usually updates the prebinding info in all executables, which results in a change to the checksum, hence the requirement to re-authorize access.

If it weren't for this check, somebody could have replaced your Mail application with a Trojan and get access to your keychain.

(Of course this applies to all apps, not just Mail).

Re:Two notes

[mrpuffypants]

interesting that this demonstrates just how stable OS X is...when something that happens every reboot people don't know what it looks like :)

I almost never reboot my iBook, for me it's just: close the lid, go somewhere, open it up and keep going

/. Auto Notify?

[n-baxley]

It's not enough that QuickTime notifies me there's an upgrade every time I open it. Now I get notifications from slashdot as well nagging me to upgrade. Will it never end?!

Re:/. Auto Notify?

[Tuzanor]

-Change the date for your system to something high like the year 2020.
-Open Quicktime, select "Upgrade Later"
-Change the date back to the present day
-Never see those nags again...

Though this may not work with 6.0.2...

SuperDrive Firmware Update is also out

[Znonymous Coward]

The SuperDrive update is also out.

Essential QT supplement for Unix nerds

[babbage]

While you're upgrading your copy of Quicktime, you might also want to poke around Apple's developer's site & download their ASCIIMoviePlayer.

Yes, that's right -- in just 200 or so well documented lines of C, Apple shows you how to get your Mac's Quicktime libraries to output high quality video as ....ascii. Eat your heart out, "Star Wars ascii guy" -- ever feel let down that you couldn't watch your home movie collection from work? Now all you need to do is open up a remote shell & play them in your Terminal/xterm/PuTTY window...

:-)

obReference: found out about this from MacOSXHints.com earlier this week, and have been amused by it ever since...

Re:Essential QT supplement for Unix nerds

[ealar dlanvuli]

I cannot begin to express how disturbed my mental state is presently.

Please never do that again.

Thank you, and good day.

Re:Essential QT supplement for Unix nerds

[goon america]

That's really cool. For some reason, the luminence is inverted, which is easy enough to fix.

Change line 174 to the following and it looks much better:
convert[255 - i] = table[i * strlen(table) / 256];

Also, you get a better framerate (ha!) using an OpenGL-based terminal like GLterm which is much, much faster than the default terminal. I thought the idea of an OpenGL terminal was silly, until now.

Re:Essential QT supplement for Unix nerds

[babbage]

Actually, the comments made it look like you're meant to run light text on a dark background, which probably explains the luminence hack.

On a related note, I found out about a color version of the software, available (again with source etc) from this site. I'm sure this can be pushed in all sorts of ways (command line flags for color or "greyscale" or without color afjustment, command line hints for the desired image geometry, etc), but I don't know nearly enough C to feel comfortable with such a project (being a lowly Perl hacker & hardly an expert at that).

Other observations: [a] it can take any file that Quicktime can present, including video & still images (the thought that this program or something like it could attempt to render audio into an ascii movie is too terrifying & wonderful for me to grapple with yet), [b] you should be able to save the output it produces with /usr/bin/script, save it as a "plain" text file, and then play it back on any vt100ish terminal application, up to & including vt100 terminals if you have any laying around. This too is almost too terrible & wonderful for me to properly grapple with yet :-)

Re:Quicktime... ack

[teh*fink]

considering you are obviously on windows i really don't think you have a right to complain about "horrible proprietary software that imbeds itself deeply." thx

colour depth problems?

[Yarn]

I use VLC and/or mplayer compiled for OS X, and upgrading to 6 broke these, VLC guys claimed this was due to QT6, and said to change to 16bit. This worked.

I later reinstalled OS X, and just didn't install QT6. So, I'd love to hear other peoples' experiences ;)

OS9 version link

[bobdotorg]

The 10.1 MB OS9 standalone version is here:
http://wsidecar.apple.com/cgi-bin/qtc/nph-Q uickTim e.hqx

Fix your preComps

[Canyon Rat]

The update installs a couple of new headers. To kill the annoying messages about how your precompiled headers are out of date every time you try to build something, enter the following in terminal:

sudo fixPrecomps -all

Re:Quicktime... ack

[ealar dlanvuli]

I would say QT is far diffrent than the garbage windows does. QT has a very well defined scope, and the reason it's part of the OS is clearly defined (Read the documentation).

IE/WMP have no clearly defined scope, they are just programs that have been mutilated to be inseperable from the OS. They aern't even used by the OS itself unless you run the "programs" (go ahead try it, uninstall all libraries associted with IE and the executable directory itself, you are still able to do everything except launch IE even after reboot).