QuickTime 6
(Legacy)
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What’s New in QuickTime 6
Using Gestalt to Get the QuickTime Version
Documentation and Other Resources
Bug Reporting
Installing QuickTime 6
Summary of Changes and Enhancements
Support for MPEG-4
Working with MPEG-4 Files
New Video Codec for MPEG-4
MPEG-4 Audio Support
QuickTime AAC Decoder
Native MPEG-4 Streaming
MPEG-4 and Web Developers
RTSP Instant-On Enhancement to Streaming
User Interface Changes
JPEG 2000 Support
Flash 5 Support
New APIs for Tasking QuickTime
The Idle Manager APIs
What To Do Next
Three Useful Idle Manager Calls
General Purpose Idle Manager API
Data Handlers
Movie Importers
New Carbon Movie Control
Access to Underpinnings
Sprite API Changes
Sprite Hit-Testing Mode
New Sprite Operands
New Wired Actions and Operands for Chapter Lists
Getting the Name and the Index of a Chapter
New Wired Actions and Operands for Sprites and Sprite Tracks
Sprite Hit Testing Property, Actions, and Operands
Miscellaneous Wired Actions and Operands
QTVR Object Actions and Operands
Additional New Actions and Operands
VBR Sound Compression Support
New User Data APIs
QuickTime for Java Enhancements
AppleScript Changes
New Sequence Grabber User Interface
New Sequence Grabber APIs
Types
New Image Compression APIs
New Image Decompression Manager APIs
New Media Handler APIs For Keyboard Focus
Adding Keyboard Navigation and Editable Text Field Support
New QuickTime Restrictions APIs
New APIs For Controlling Memory Usage in Movies
Miscellaneous Changes and Enhancements
MIDI Files Now Imported In Place
Enabling High Quality on MPEG-4 Video Tracks
QuickTime XML Importers
New XML Exporter
MovieQTList Embed Tag Attribute
SMIL Meta Tag Support in QuickTime
JavaScript Support for ActiveX, Netscape 6 and Mozilla
Playing Shoutcast or Icecast Streams in QuickTime