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Introduction to QuickTime 7 for Windows

QuickTime is the industry standard for multimedia programming and application development, with a rich and evolving API comprised of more than 2500 function calls. Its component-based architecture is highly extensible, enabling applications to display, import, export, and modify a broad range of digital media, including audio, video, still images, text, Flash, MIDI, sprites, VR panoramas, among other media types. QuickTime is designed from the ground up to work with local disk-based media, media accessed over a network, or streams of real-time data.

This document provides detailed information about the new features, changes, and enhanced capabilities that are available in QuickTime 7 for Windows.

QuickTime 7 for Windows is a major release involving a significant update and revision of the QuickTime code base that includes the introduction of H.264, a new QuickTime Player built from the ground up, CoreAudio for Windows, QuickTime Audio on top of CoreAudio, with multichannel audio support, and a new QuickTime 7 for Windows installer.

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