Technical Q&As
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2008-04-24 How can I find out what non-RGB pixel formats a codec supports? (HTML) (日本語 HTML)
Editorial
 Minor Change Compression & Decompression, QuickTime Component Creation
2008-03-27 How to get a native QuickTime movie object from the QuickTime ActiveX/COM control (HTML)
First Version
 First Version QuickTime for Windows
2008-03-11 How to work around HIMovieViewCreate failing (HTML)
Editorial
 Minor Change Carbon
2007-10-09 Looping Audio Files with QuickTime for Windows (HTML)
First Version
 First Version Audio, Movie Basics, QuickTime for Windows
2008-03-11 Movie Import Components - MovieImportDataRef Invoked For File Import Operations (HTML)
First Version
 First Version Import & Export, QuickTime Component Creation
2007-09-13 Programatically retrieving field and frame information (HTML)
First Version
 First Version Carbon, Movie Basics
2008-03-17 QTKit Capture - Extracting SMPTE Timecode information from a QTSampleBuffer (HTML)
First Version
 First Version Cocoa
2008-03-06 QTKit Capture - Setting DecompressedVideoOutput CVPixelBuffer Attributes (HTML)
Editorial
 Minor Change Cocoa
2008-03-11 QTKit Capture - Specifying Media Compression Settings (HTML)
Editorial
 Minor Change Cocoa, Movie Creation
2007-09-28 QuickTime Audio - Muting and GetMovieAudioFrequencyLevels (HTML)
First Version
 First Version Audio, Carbon
2008-01-08 QuickTime Audio - Rendering QuickTime Movie audio to a specific Audio Device (HTML)
First Version
 First Version Audio
2008-01-15 QuickTime Media Optimization Properties (HTML)
First Version
 First Version Import & Export, Movie Basics, Movie Creation
2007-09-18 QuickTime Texture Visual Context - kQTVisualContextNotAllowedErr with non-accelerated graphics cards (HTML)
First Version
 First Version Graphics & Imaging
2007-09-28 QuickTime Visual Context - Setting the kQTVisualContextOutputColorSpaceKey Attribute (HTML)
First Version
 First Version Graphics & Imaging
2008-03-17 Sample Description Endianness (HTML)
First Version
 First Version File Format Specification
2008-04-24 Using QTPixelBufferContextCreate with NewMovieFromProperties (HTML)
Editorial
 Minor Change Carbon, Cocoa, Graphics & Imaging, Movie Basics
2007-10-03 Why isn't my QuickTime Component recognized by iMovie '08? (HTML)
First Version
 First Version Import & Export, QuickTime Component Creation