QuickTime 5
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What’s New in QuickTime 5
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