What's New in QuickTime 5
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With QuickTime 5, Apple introduces a new third-party software install mechanism, as shown in the dialog in Figure 34 . The goal of this new mechanism is to provide support for automatically downloading third-party components on an as-needed basis. For example, if a user opens a movie that requires a particular third-party codec, QuickTime will offer to download and install it. To accomplish this goal, Apple will provide developers with a registry of QuickTime components on an Apple server.
Figure 34 The new third-party install and update options for QuickTime users on Mac OS X
This is an opportunity for third-party developers who have built components to include those components in user downloads and updates of QuickTime. Apple Developer Relations is currently administering this program, though details have not yet been finalized.
While not all details have been finalized -- contact your representative in Apple Developer Relations for the latest information -- the process works tentatively as described in the next section.
What's New in QuickTime 5
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