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QuickTime is a discontinued[1] extensible multimedia architecture created by Apple, which supports playing, streaming, encoding, and transcoding a variety of digital media formats.[2][3] The term QuickTime also refers to the QuickTime Player front-end media player application,[2] which is built-into macOS, and was formerly available for Windows.[4]
QuickTime was created in 1991, when the concept of playing digital video directly on computers was "groundbreaking."[2][3] QuickTime could embed a number of advanced media types, including panoramic images (called QuickTime VR) and Adobe Flash. Over the 1990s, QuickTime became a dominant standard for digital multimedia, as it was integrated into many websites, applications, and video games, and adopted by professional filmmakers. The QuickTime File Format became the basis for the MPEG-4 standard.[5][6][2][3][7] During its heyday, QuickTime was notably used to create the innovative Myst and Xplora1 video games, and to exclusively distribute movie trailers for several Star Wars movies.[8][2] QuickTime could support additional codecs through plug-ins, for example with Perian.[9]
As operating systems and browsers gained support for MPEG-4 and subsequent standards like H.264, the need for a cross-platform version of QuickTime diminished, and Apple discontinued the Windows version of QuickTime in 2016.[10][11][12][1] In Mac OS X Snow Leopard, QuickTime 7 was discontinued in favor of QuickTime Player X, which abandoned the aging QuickTime framework in favor of the AVFoundation framework. QuickTime Player X does not support video editing (beyond trimming clips) or plug-ins for additional codec support.[1][13] macOS Catalina dropped support for all 32-bit applications, including the QTKit framework and the old QuickTime 7.[11]
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2011. "Apple – QuickTime – QuickTime Pro". Archived from the original on January 10, 2007. Retrieved January 10, 2007. "ISO ADOPTS QUICKTIME FILE FORMAT...
QuickTime File Format (QTFF) is a computer file format used natively by the QuickTime framework. The format specifies a multimedia container file that...
In video games, a quicktime event (QTE) is a method of context-sensitive gameplay in which the player performs actions on the control device shortly after...
QuickTime VR (also known as QTVR) is an image file format developed by Apple Inc. for QuickTime, and discontinued along with QuickTime 7. It allows the...
QuickTime Alternative 3.2.2 was released. Based on Apple QuickTime 7.6.6. On July 15, 2010, both Quicktime Alternative and Real Alternative were removed from...
original on 3 July 2013. Retrieved 9 April 2013. QuickTime Animation (RLE) Video Decoder - FFmpeg Quicktime Animation (RLE) Video Encoder - FFmpeg v t e...
QuickTime Graphics is a lossy video compression and decompression algorithm (codec) developed by Apple Inc. and first released as part of QuickTime 1...
purchase the video. In QuickTime, M4V videos using FairPlay DRM are identified as "AVC0 Media". Besides Apple iTunes and the Apple QuickTime Player, M4V files...
October 1996. "Apple Licenses Roland's Sound Canvas and GS Technology for Quicktime 3.0". Harmony Central. 21 December 1997. Retrieved 24 November 2022. Wikimedia...
object-oriented layer atop the procedural QuickTime library, using Objective-C. Apple's use of the top-level package name quicktime violates the Java Language's Specification...
original on July 13, 2011. Retrieved December 16, 2009. Available with QuickTime Streaming Server. Only the media creator can create skins. anaglyph only...
Codec on the system as a QuickTime component. iMovie transcodes HD video upon import using this codec and stores it in the QuickTime file format. iMovie 6...
to that, some very general-purpose container types like AVI (.avi) and QuickTime (.mov) can contain video and audio in almost any format, and have file...
relative to the screen resolution. It can preview files such as PDFs, HTML, QuickTime readable media, plain text and RTF text documents, iWork (Keynote, Pages...
QuickTime Broadcaster is an audio and video RTP/RTSP server by Apple Inc. for Mac OS X. It is separate from Apple's QuickTime Streaming Server, as it...
was shipped. Apple provided a Software implementation of MJPEG in their QuickTime Player in the mid-1990s. M-JPEG is an intraframe-only compression scheme...
directly based upon the QuickTime File Format, which was published in 2001. MPEG-4 Part 14 is essentially identical to the QuickTime File Format but formally...
Marlin, Bruce (25 April 2006). Video of the "vibrating spider" vibrating (QuickTime Movie). "Daddy Long Legs". Queensland Museum. Wim van Egmond. "Pholcus...
technology in Windows. Apple added Quick Sync support in OS X Mountain Lion for AirPlay, FaceTime, iTunes, Safari, QuickTime X, iMovie, Final Cut Pro X, Motion...
software for the macOS operating system. It was known for being the only QuickTime component for macOS to support Windows Media Video, and was distributed...
at the Wayback Machine, Retrieved 2009-10-22 About QuickTime 6.3 (Apple Knowledge Base), In QuickTime 6.3 the AMR codec is natively supported and the .AMR...
sequences of JPEG 2000 images and associated audio, based on the MP4 and QuickTime format. Filename extensions for Motion JPEG 2000 video files are .mj2...
QuickPlayer may refer to: QuickPlay by Hewlett-Packard QuickPlay by Quickplay Media QuickTime Player, part of QuickTime This disambiguation page lists...
which added native WebM support to the browser. As of 2019[update], QuickTime does not natively support WebM, but does with a suitable third-party plug-in...
special QuickTime movies) in a web browser. Development upon HyperCard 3.0 stalled when the QuickTime team was focused away from developing QuickTime interactive...
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