Website: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/ Software Provider: Apple, Inc. Current Version:
QuickTime Player 7.6.4 Operating Systems: Windows 95, 98, Me, 2000, XP, Vista License: Freeware
Support for files larger than 2.0 GB in Mac OS 9. (This is a consequence of Mac OS 9 requiring the HFS Plus filesystem
Variable bit rate (VBR) support for MPEG-1 Layer 3 (MP3) audio
Support for Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL)
Introduction of AppleScript support in Mac OS
The requirement of a PowerPC processor for Mac OS systems. QuickTime 4.1 dropped support for Motorola 68k Macintosh systems.
About:
QuickTime is a multimedia technology developed by Apple Computer, capable of handling various formats of digital video, sound, text, animation, music, and immersive virtual reality panoramic images.
It is currently at version 7.1.5 on the Mac and Windows platform.
QuickTime Player Pro Features
Full-screen playback.
New movie recordings from a FireWire DV or iSight camera.
Editing clips through the Cut, Copy and Paste functions, merging separate audio and video tracks, freely placing the video tracks on a virtual canvas with the options of cropping and rotation
Saving and exporting (encoding) to any of the codecs supported by QuickTime. QuickTime 7 includes presets for exporting video to a video-capable iPod.
Some other free player applications that rely on the QuickTime framework provide features not available in the basic QuickTime Player. For example:
iTunes can export audio in WAV, AIFF, MP3, AAC, and Apple Lossless.
RealPlayer and Media Player Classic support all of the playback features included in QuickTime, including full-screen playback.
In Mac OS X, a simple AppleScript can be used to play a movie in full-screen mode
