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What’s New in QuickTime 5

Welcome to QuickTime 5.

This document provides a list of the changes, new features, and enhanced capabilities in this release of QuickTime. If you are a QuickTime API-level developer, content author, or Webmaster, you should read this document.

QuickTime 5 is planned as a series of incremental releases.

• This release is QuickTime 5.0.1. This is the first general release of QuickTime 5 for Windows, Mac OS 8, and Mac OS 9. This release was preceded by a series of Public Previews.

• A release of QuickTime 5 was included as part of the Mac OS X CD (ver 10.0), and is part of that operating system. It is not available as a separate download.

• The current release was also preceded by QuickTime 5.0 RT, which was included on a limited number of Mac-only CDs. The current release (5.0.1) replaces QuickTime 5.0 RT.

There are minor differences among these three software releases, as explained in the section “Version Differences.”

Contents:

Major Release
Using Gestalt to Get the QuickTime Version
Resources and Other Documentation
Summary of Changes and Enhancements
QuickTime Player Changes
Media Skins
Digital Video (DV) Codec Optimizations
Real-Time Effects Support
New Latency APIs
Multiprocessor (MP) Support
New MP-Related Image Compression Manager APIs
QuickTime VR Authoring Components Added
A New Installer for Downloading Third-Party Components
How to Package QuickTime Components on Mac OS X
AppleScript Changes and Additions
MPEG 1 Playback
Flash 4
kActionFlashTrackDoButtonActions
kOperandFlashTrackVariable
QT Events
Importing a Flash Movie
QuickTime Music Architecture (QTMA)
New QuickTime VR Cubic Engine
Nonstandard Cubes
Gamma Processing APIs
Preferred Codec APIs
Media Sharing Support
New ‘vdig’ Flag Added
New Data Handler APIs
API to Determine Whether QuickTime Can Open a File
New Plugin Features
New QTML function
QuickTime for Java
SMIL Changes
Enhancements to Effects
Streaming Client
Wired Actions
XML Import
XML Event-Based Parsing

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