[opendtv] Re: FW: News: iTunes, iPod really about Quicktime

  • From: Craig Birkmaier <craig@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Henry Baker <hbaker1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Kon Wilms" <kon@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 08:27:39 -0500

At 2:39 PM -0500 12/22/04, Kon Wilms wrote:
>Quicktime player is a user interface disaster even on OSX:
>http://digilander.libero.it/chiediloapippo/Engineering/iarchitect/qtime.htm
>

This is a review of the QuickTime 4.0 Player.  It was released  in 
2001, about the same time as the original version of OS X.

We are now at QuickTime Version 6.5. Among the other changes in the 
last two MAJOR releases of QuickTime, was an update to the user 
interface to bring it into conformance with the appearance guidelines 
for OS-X. You can expect another major Quicktime release this year, 
possibly in the NAB timeframe, which will include

And as far as interdependencies of QuickTime and applications like 
iTunes, what's the issue here. There are litterally hundreds of 
applications that rely on QuickTime for digital media resources, 
especially the wide range of codecs and file formats that Apple 
supports. I have appended a quick rundown of the formats that 
QuickTime supports (note that this does not include third party 
plug-ins for additional proprietary formats from vendors like Avid, 
Adobe, Media 100, Panasonic (DVCPro 50/HD),  etc.).

Regards
Craig


*QuickTime also supports import of multiple images and layers in 
TIFF, FlashPix, and Photoshop files.

**Playback of program and elementary streams available via QuickTime 
6 MPEG-2 Playbck Component, sold separately in the Apple Store online.

Import file formats

     * 3DMF (Mac OS 9 & Windows)
     * 3GPP
     * 3GPP2
     * AIFF
     * AMC
     * AMR
     * Animated GIF
     * AU
     * Audio CD Data (Mac OS 9)
     * AVI
     * BMP
     * Cubic VR
     * DLS
     * DV
     * FlashPix*
     * FLC
     * GIF
     * GSM
     * JPEG 2000 (Mac OS X)
     * JPEG/JFIF
     * Karaoke
     * MacPaint
     * Macromedia Flash 5
     * MIDI
     * MPEG-1
     * MP3(MPEG-1, Layer 3)
     * M3U(MP3 Playlist files)
     * MPEG-2**
     * MPEG-4
     * M4A, M4B, M4P (iTunes 4 audio)
     * PDF (Mac OS X)
     * Photoshop*
     * PICS
     * PICT
     * PLS
     * PNG
     * QCP (Mac OS 9 & Windows)
     * QuickTime Image File
     * QuickTime Movie
     * SD2 (Mac OS 9 & Windows)
     * SDP
     * SDV
     * SF2 (SoundFont 2)
     * SGI
     * SMIL
     * System 7 Sound (Mac OS 9)
     * Targa
     * Text
     * TIFF*
     * TIFF Fax
     * VDU (Sony Video Disk Unit)
     * Virtual Reality (VR)
     * Wave

Export formats

     * 3GPP
     * 3GPP2
     * AIFF
     * AMC
     * AU
     * AVI
     * BMP
     * DV Stream
     * FLC
     * Image Sequence movie exporters
     * JPEG/JFIF
     * JPEG 2000 (Mac OS X)
     * MacPaint
     * MIDI
     * MPEG-4
     * Photoshop
     * PICT
     * PNG
     * QuickTime Image File
     * QuickTime Movie
     * SGI
     * System 7 Sound
     * Targa
     * Text
     * TIFF
     * WAV

Video Codecs
     * Animation
     * Apple BMP
     * Apple Pixlet (Mac OS X v10.3 only)
     * Apple Video
     * Cinepak
     * Component video
     * DV and DVC Pro NTSC
     * DV PAL
     * DVC Pro PAL
     * Graphics
     * H.261
     * H.263
     * JPEG 2000 (Mac OS X)
     * Microsoft OLE (decode only)
     * Microsoft Video 1 (decode only)
     * Motion JPEG A
     * Motion JPEG B
     * MPEG-4
     * Photo JPEG
     * Planar RGB
     * PNG
     * Sorenson Video 2
     * Sorenson Video 3
     * TGA
     * TIFF

Audio Codecs

     * 24-bit integer
     * 32-bit floating point
     * 32-bit integer
     * 64-bit floating point
     * AAC (MPEG-4 Audio)
     * ALaw 2:1
     * AMR Narrowband
     * Apple Lossless Encoder
     * IMA 4:1
     * MACE 3:1
     * MACE 6:1
     * MS ADPCM (decode only)
     * QDesign Music 2
     * Qualcomm PureVoice (QCELP)
     * ULaw 2:1
 
 
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