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QT6 beta released
By ron carlson, Insanely Great Mac
June 4th 2002
Without mention of its MPEG4 license status, Apple has loosed a public preview
Apple has announced the release of a public preview of QuickTime 6 -- a free download
for both Mac and Windoze (the server was overwhelmed when I checked at 9:35am est).
QT 6 is the industry''s first mainstream MPEG-4 solution for streaming media to MPEG-4
compliant players. In addition, a public preview of QuickTime Broadcaster, which
captures and encodes QuickTime content in MPEG-4 for live streaming over the web, is
also available.
The gold standard
"QuickTime 6 delivers the world''s first complete media solution for creating,
streaming and viewing MPEG-4 content," said Steve Jobs. "MPEG-4 is an open standard
being adopted by wireless, computer and entertainment companies around the world
because it delivers the highest quality digital video, and allows content creators to
scale the quality/bandwidth tradeoff all the way from MPEG-2 quality to dramatically
lower bandwidths for streaming over the Internet."
QuickTime 6 includes "instant-on" streaming, which eliminates frustrating buffer
delays and provides users with the ability to quickly and easily scrub through
streaming media content to locate and instantly locate the part they are looking for.
Further, QT 6 running on Mac OS X now supports JPEG 2000, the next generation JPEG
standard that allows users to capture still images at higher quality and smaller file
sizes.
QuickTime 6 also includes Advanced Audio Coding (AAC), the standard MPEG-4 audio
format. AAC is the next-generation professional-quality audio format that delivers
vastly superior sound quality at drastically reduced file sizes -- better than MP3 and
better than Windows Media Player (WMA).
Analysis: What of the MPEG4 license? Has Apple jumped the gun to better its bargaining
position or has an agreement been reached. Or, has MPEGLA -- the group responsible for
setting and collecting royalties -- allowed Apple to "release now and settle later?"
Whatever the case, it''s here now and it promises alot.
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