Special Announcement to Yahoo! Group QuickTime members!
========================================= This is the first special
announcement I have published in the 11 years of the QuickTime Group on
Yahoo! I thought it pertinent because Apple has finally published some
official information on QuickTime X, the first major change to QuickTime
in many years. Hopefully, this will mark a milestone for QuickTime, and
allow renewed interest in the platform going forward. Thank you to you
all for being such persevered and patient members of this group!
Sincerely, Ron Manke Yahoo! Group QuickTime Moderator
========================================= Apple has posted some
official QuickTime X information. QuickTime X will be available in
September, and will be included in the MacOSX Snow Leopard operating
system for Macs, which will be selling for $29. The biggest change is
that Apple has removed the licensing restriction from the QuickTime
Player so that you will no longer need to get the Pro version of
QuickTime in order to use the editing features in the QuickTime player.
---------------- For more information on the new functionality in
QuickTime X, see the following information on Apple's site: Overview:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/refinements/enhancements-refinements.html#qu\
icktime Technical details:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/technology/#quicktimex Here's the WWDC
keynote address in glorious QuickTime (you will have to skip through it
to get to the QuickTime specific content):
http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/0906paowdnv/event/index.html?inter\
nal=ijalrmacu ---------------- I have yet to find any information on
QuickTime X for Windows, but considering that there does not seem to be
any changes to CODEC's, this may be a non-issue. The biggest features
that would be missing from the Windows player would be HTTP streaming
and GPU-accelerated video decoding. Hopefully Apple comes out with a
version for Windows, but they have not announced anything thus far.