Quicktime and the Snow Leopard

Richmond Mathewson richmondmathewson at gmail.com
Mon Sep 7 11:13:15 EDT 2009


I have just been reading this:
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/09/01/inside_mac_os_x_snow_leopard_quicktime_x.html

this, particularly:

"the new QuickTime X doesn't do everything that the previous QuickTime 7.x
does, such as providing complex transcoding options, component plugins for
installing alternative codecs, or the ability to hint tracks for RTSP
streaming via QuickTime Streaming Server. That's why Apple includes an
updated version of the previous QuickTime 7.x player as an optional install
in Snow Leopard to handle all of those features. "

which would seem to suggest that if one authors for Mac OS 10.6 one cannot
really rely on Quicktime as we
on Mac 10.4 and 10.5 understand it. This may impinge on how Revolution
leverages Quicktime for its
multimedia capabilities.



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