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QuickTime 6.0.2 Released

Posted by pudge on from the all-i-see-is-video-ga-ga dept.

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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  1. Requires working Perl by Sulka · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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...

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  2. Re:Two notes by Pengo · · Score: 5, Informative

    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

  3. /. Auto Notify? by n-baxley · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?!

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  4. Re:Two notes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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).

  5. Essential QT supplement for Unix nerds by babbage · · Score: 5, Interesting
    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...

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    1. Re:Essential QT supplement for Unix nerds by babbage · · Score: 5, Interesting
      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 :-)

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  6. Re:Quicktime... ack by teh*fink · · Score: 5, Funny

    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

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  7. OS9 version link by bobdotorg · · Score: 5, Informative

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

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