What's New in QuickTime 5

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Contents

• QuickTime 5 Versions
• Using Gestalt to Get the QuickTime Version
• Version Differences
• Resources and Other Documentation
• Summary of Changes and Enhancements
• Enhancements
• Changes to the Installer
• Support for New Formats
• Other New Features
• QuickTime Player Changes
• QuickTime VR Controls
• New Player Application Capabilities
• New Plugin Features
• New Embed Tag Parameters
• New URL Extensions
• SaveEmbedTags
• AllowEmbedTagOverrides
• New Debug Tool Added to Plugin
• MPEG 1 Playback
• Media Skins
• Creating Media Skins
• Current Limitations
• Adding Media Skins Using the QuickTime API
• Adding Custom Media Skins with AppleScript
• Media Skin Droplet
• Creating the Media Skin Image Files
• Transparent Overlay Media Skins
• Setting the Script Preferences
• Running the Script
• Completed Examples
• QuickTime VR Authoring Components Added
• The QTVR Flattener
• Presenting Users with the QTVR Flattener Dialog Box
• Communicating Directly with the Component
• Sample Atom Container for the QTVR Flattener
• The QTVR Multinode Splitter
• Advantages of a Multinode Movie
• Usage of the QTVR Splitter
• Displaying Movies in Web Pages
• QuickTime VR Object Movie Compressor
• XML Import
• New QuickTime Media Links XML Importer
• Supported Attributes and Values
• XML Event-Based Parsing
• SMIL Changes
• New SMIL Attributes
• Support for "qt:preroll"
• Support for begin-clip and end-clip
• Support for "qt:fullscreen"
• URLs Used with "qt: next" Attribute
• URL Resolution
• Digital Video (DV) Codec Optimizations
• High-Quality Decompression
• Improved Compression Quality and Performance
• Improved Low-Quality Vector Decode
• Addition of Multiprocessor Support
• Real-Time Effects Support
• New Installer for Downloading Third-Party Components
• General Submission Requirements for Third-Party Components
• How to Package QuickTime Components on Mac OS X
• How and Where Your Component Gets Installed
• Localized and Non-Localized Resources
• Recommended Procedures
• New Latency APIs
• Overview
• Usage
• Applications
• Video Codecs
• Sound Output Components
• Video Codec Latency API
• ImageCodecGetDecompressLatency
• Sound Output Latency API
• siOutputLatency (SoundComponentGetInfo)
• Multiprocessor (MP) Support
• Enabling Asynchronous MP Decompression Using the Base Decompressor
• Taking Advantage of Asynchronous MP Codecs in Your Application
• SCCompressSequenceFrame (available in previous versions of QuickTime)
• SCCompressSequenceFrameAsync
• SCAsyncIdle
• New MP-Related Image Compression Manager APIs
• AppleScript Changes and Additions
• Additional Commands
• Application Class Changes
• Favorite Class Changes
• Movie Class Changes
• Track Class Changes
• Additional Classes
• Class chapter: A reference to a chapter in a QuickTime movie
• Class stream: A stream in a streaming track
• Class display: A display device
• Class frame: A reference to a frame (sample) in a QuickTime movie track
• Class text frame: A reference to a text frame in a QuickTime text track
• Other Changes
• Flash 4
• New Wired Actions and Operands
• kActionFlashTrackSetFlashVariable
• kActionFlashTrackDoButtonActions
• kOperandFlashTrackVariable
• QT Events
• Importing a Flash Movie
• QuickTime Music Architecture (QTMA)
• Improved QuickTime Music Synthesizer
• New Reverb to Improve Sound Quality
• Updated Music Control Panel
• Other Improvements
• Some Limitations of Sound Font 2 and DLS Files
• Assigning Custom Sound Banks to Movies
• New QuickTime VR Cubic Engine
• Panorama Flags Superseded by the panoType Field
• Panorama Image Track
• Changes to Cylindrical Panoramas
• New Cubic Panorama
• Image Tracks in Cubic Nodes
• Panorama Tracks in Cubic Nodes
• Nonstandard Cubes
• Gamma Processing APIs
• Usage
• PixMap APIs
• QTGetPixMapPtrGammaLevel
• QTSetPixMapPtrGammaLevel
• QTGetPixMapHandleGammaLevel
• QTSetPixMapHandleGammaLevel
• QTGetPixMapPtrRequestedGammaLevel
• QTSetPixMapPtrRequestedGammaLevel
• QTGetPixMapHandleRequestedGammaLevel
• QTSetPixMapHandleRequestedGammaLevel
• Codec APIs
• ImageCodecRequestGammaLevel
• ImageCodecGetSourceDataGammaLevel
• Default Gamma of Custom Pixel Formats
• Preferred Codec APIs
• MediaSetUserPreferredCodecs
• MediaGetUserPreferredCodecs
• Media Sharing Support
• AddClonedTrackToMovie
• How To Find All Clone Tracks in a Movie
• Notes and Issues
• New APIs
• SetMovieVideoOutput
• New Media Handler API
• MediaEmptySampleCache
• New `vdig' Flag Added
• New Data Handler APIs
• DataHGetFileTypeOrdering
• GetMovieImporterForDataRef (Updated)
• DataHGetMIMETypeAsync
• QTGetMIMETypeInfo
• Pointer Data Handler
• New Load State Defined
• Autoplay and the Movie Toolbox
• New Media Type Supported
• Encoding GSM Audio
• API to Determine Whether QuickTime Can Open a File
• CanQuickTimeOpenFile
• CanQuickTimeOpenDataRef
• New QTML function
• QTGetAliasInfo
• QuickTime for Java
• Idling Mechanism Re-Worked
• Support for New Services
• QTDrawing Listener and Notification Services
• Streaming Client
• Broadcasting APIs
• Wired Actions
• New Wired Actions
• General Wired Actions
• Send App Message
• Flash Wired Actions
• Text Wired Actions
• QTLists
• Track Wired Actions
• QTVR Wired Actions
• New Wired Operands
• General
• Movie Property
• Track Property
• Sprite Track
• Text
• QTLists
• Math
• Flash
• General
• Keyboard Focus

What's New in QuickTime 5

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