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QuickTime 6 Is Out 443

Posted by pudge from the now-i-want-ac3-support-darnit dept.
flamingnight writes "If you go to Apple's QuickTime page, you'll notice that QuickTime 6 has been released. No mention of QT 5 anywhere on the site. Features include the long-awaited MPEG-4 support, 50+ input/output formats, and plenty of A/V codecs and video effects (see Apple - QuickTime - Specifications for a full list)." It's available for Mac OS 8/9, Mac OS X 10.1.3+, and Windows 98/2000/NT/Me/XP (does anyone actually use Windows Me?). Just remember that your QuickTime 5 key won't work with QuickTime 6.
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  • Just great... (Score:2, Interesting)

    by Streyeder ( 569869 )
    Let the file association war continue....
  • Considering MacWorld begins in less than 48 hours, why release now? I would have thought this would have been the big thing during the keynote along with Jaguar.

    Are they trying to one-up the Corona announcement from MS?
  • Now will someone point me to a decent howto on how to get .mov, .qt or .mpeg/.avi/MPEG4/Divix :-) to play on my kde desktop? I've tried this in the past and all I ever get are tons of headaches and eventually I just give up.

    • Re:Great... (Score:3, Informative)

      by blakestah ( 91866 )
      1) Install xine, use it as the default for quicktime movies in your browser. This default works for most
      things.

      2) Install WINE and use it to play other stuff encoded in the latest and greatest proprietary formats that only the real QuickTime understands.

      Also, you could substitute mplayer for xine and get the same success rate.
    • Now will someone point me to a decent howto on how to get .mov, .qt or .mpeg/.avi/MPEG4/Divix :-) to play on my kde desktop? I've tried this in the past and all I ever get are tons of headaches and eventually I just give up.

      Simple [kde.org]. Once you do this, you will never have to worry about Quicktime ever when using a KDE desktop on your UNIX system.

    • I agree with the xine recommendation, have a look here: here [bunkus.org] it talks about mplayer, but you can surf down to the middle of the page. What you want is avifile -- grab that.

      Have a look at section 4 [sourceforge.net] of the Xine Faq about where to put them, and exactly which files your after.

      How about this from our friends at Linux Liberation Front, the win32codecs (half-way-down(win32-codecs-1.0-1plf.i586)) [zarb.org] all packed up for 'ya.

      Enjoy!

    • Heres the complete guide to DivX movies (Score:2, Informative)

      by Anonymous Coward
      QT plays some avi but DivX is something different for DivX download DivX Doctor 2 and 3ivx Delta 4, Preview Release 1. To install Delta 4 click on the script and it will automatic install the code for you. Cellulo is a good movie player I use it mostly for play lists for hundreds of split movie files. For DivX that DivX Doctor can't play which are few I use MPlayerOSX. This is all you need no more no less
      http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi? id=148 51&db=mac

      http://doctor.3ivx.com/download.html

      http://www.3ivx.com/download/macos_4_pr1.html

      http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=1 40 41&db=mac

  • Hee Hee... So much for MS's Thunder (Score:5, Insightful)

    by skribble ( 98873 ) on Monday July 15, 2002 @04:01PM (#3888860) Homepage

    MS Talks... Apple ships.

    Nice job Apple (for once.)

  • QuickTime is one of the few reasons I reboot under Windows from time to time. Gotta watch that Two Towers trailer... :)
  • Still can't import an mpeg-2 video. My capture card has a hardware mpeg-2 encoder. Figures... :-(

  • Crossover? (Score:3, Interesting)

    by npietraniec ( 519210 ) <npietran@@@resistive...net> on Monday July 15, 2002 @04:08PM (#3888937) Homepage
    Crossover plugin seems to still be downloading QT5 installer. Has anyone got QT6 running under crossover?

  • does anyone actually use Windows Me? (Score:3, Informative)

    by N8F8 ( 4562 ) on Monday July 15, 2002 @04:10PM (#3888950)
    does anyone actually use Windows Me?

    Yes, a whole bunch of people, but they think they are running Windows 2000. I've had to break the bad news to four people so far when I helped them fix their computers. Great MS marketing. Millenium? 2000? whats the difference.

  • No Nags ever again (Score:5, Informative)

    by 3ryon ( 415000 ) on Monday July 15, 2002 @04:11PM (#3888962)
    Here's how to get rid of the QT nag screens. QT will nag you the first time it's launched each day (or some increment of time). When you choose "Later" it sets a value in the registry to remind you tomorrow.

    So, set your clock forward about twenty years (make sure you close any meeting reminder software first) and then launch QT. Tell it "Later" and then set your clock back. Haven't tested this with QT6, but it worked with 5.
    • Somewhat related . . .

      When doing Y2K testing here at work, someone else in the dept set his clock forward a couple months (into 2000) to see just what would happen.

      He forgot to close his email program before doing this.

      The email system (client) is set to automatically delete emails over 90 days old. The look on his face as his mailbox items - one by one - disappeared (as he was watching!) was priceless.

  • Does anyone know if Quicktime 6 supports AVI and DV files over 2GB? Quicktime 5 cuts off all video beyond the 2GB mark on AVI and DV files.
    • Does anyone know if Quicktime 6 supports AVI and DV files over 2GB?
      Perhaps you should see someone about your porn addiction.

      GEEZ, that's getting a little out of hand. pun (un)intended.

  • Yes! The ultimate codec! You have no idea how long I've been looking for one of those.

  • bad news for Linux? (Score:3, Funny)

    by tps12 ( 105590 ) on Monday July 15, 2002 @04:12PM (#3888975) Homepage Journal
    Hm, I can't help but fear that this may have a negative impact on the acceptance of Linux among the all-important college student and single IT worker demographics.

    Basically, Linux has caught on with people who, due to constant exposure to Windows, hate Microsoft. These people happen to be largely male, largely affluent, and largely large (ha ha).

    These days, if you're going non-Windows, you don't have many choices. Basically, it's down to Linux and Mac. And when these anti-MS geeks choose their OS, they will choose the one of these that best suits their needs. QuickTime 6 will give them the ability to watch their multi-gig porn collections and pirated DIVX files, without all of the messy command line mucking about that is necessary for multimedia under Linux.

    As a Linux user, I wish Apple hadn't released this. Or at the very least, that Slashdot (a pro-Linux site) hadn't reported it. *sigh*

    • Re:bad news for Linux? (Score:5, Funny)

      by imr ( 106517 ) on Monday July 15, 2002 @05:59PM (#3890033)
      without all of the messy command line mucking about that is necessary for multimedia under Linux.
      what are you talking about?
      mplayer -aop list=resample:fout=2 -vo xv -dvd 1 -gui is quite straightforward and every new user coming from a GUI environment would find it quite easily. It's interactive, it's intuitive, it's pretty and it's fun. Like a gui.
      OK, OK, i admit, I've actually grown a few extra fingers ...

  • Anti Slashdot Effect (Score:4, Funny)

    by Peyna ( 14792 ) on Monday July 15, 2002 @04:26PM (#3889116) Homepage
    Ah, nothing like seeing Apple/Akamai stand up to slashdot like noone else can. I had use Internet Explorer instead of Mozilla just so I could see what the download speed was (mozilla doesn't display final speed when download is complete). 10 MB/s (that's Megabytes). Talk about no slashdot effect at all!

  • Bah! (Score:3, Interesting)

    by tempest303 ( 259600 ) <jensknutson AT yahoo DOT com> on Monday July 15, 2002 @04:34PM (#3889215) Homepage
    Still no Vorbis support listed in the codecs section!

    Would it have been SOOOOO hard to build in a Vorbis decoder from xiph.org's BSD-licensed reference decorder? HUH? WOULD IT?

    *sigh*... Oh, well. Perhaps some day they'll give in and build in Vorbis support.

    Any Mac-aware types care to guess on if/when this'll happen?
    • Would it have been SOOOOO hard to build in a Vorbis decoder from xiph.org's BSD-licensed reference decorder?

      You forgot to add "for the 150 people who read slashdot that actually use it?" :)

      But seriously. When you have a deadline and it costs to implement things you often one of those horrible things called a "cost/benifit analysis".

      I'm willing to bet that for all the cost in time and effort it would take to impelement it, they probably couldn't see why there would be any decent return.

      I hate to be a cynic but outside slashdot very very few people have actually heard of Ogg Vobis, let alone care.

      Don't believe me? Go sample 20 random people in the street. You'll be lucky if you find one person that knows what you're talking about. But well over three quarters of them will have heard of mp3.

      • Well, my question on "would it have been SOOOO hard" wasn't entirely rhetorical - WOULD it have been so difficult? What's the actual cost of making a plugin for a totally patent-free, BSD-licenesed audio codec?

        Also, while the return is not immediate, including Vorbis would be considered an "investment" in the cost/benefit analysis. Perhaps they're cynical on Vorbis' future, but again, I'd really love to know just how horribly hard it would have been to create a Vorbis plugin and ship it with QT6. Yes, it costs money, but my *guess* is that it couldn't be THAT hard, and while it's not guaranteed they'll get much return it's probably a tiny cost. I may be wrong here, however. Anyone have any credible estimates?

        Thirdly, you'll notice that Apple includes such fantastically popular codecs as:

        ALaw 2:1
        IMA 4:1
        MACE 3:1
        MACE 6:1
        MS ADPCM (decode only)
        QDesign Music 2
        Qualcomm PureVoice
        ULaw 2:1

        You can't tell me that Joe Sixpack has heard of THESE either, yet they're included!

        Again, in my frustration, I was overly-sarcastic - what really IS the cost to Apple here? Any developers or (clueful) managers have some realistic estimates?
        • MACE 3:1
          MACE 6:1

          Wow, I remember reading about MACE back in Inside Macintosh, Vol IV. Back when the System 7 sound manager was the coolest thing since sliced bread...

    • Re:Bah! (Score:5, Informative)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 15, 2002 @05:12PM (#3889570)
      Have you tried:

      http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtcomponents [sourceforge.net] ?

    • Re:Bah! (Score:4, Informative)

      by gwernol ( 167574 ) on Monday July 15, 2002 @05:33PM (#3889776)
      Would it have been SOOOOO hard to build in a Vorbis decoder from xiph.org's BSD-licensed reference decorder? HUH? WOULD IT?

      No, it would be easy. Apple publish [apple.com] the full QuickTime APIs. Go to it.

  • O. G. G. (Score:3, Interesting)

    by jcsehak ( 559709 ) on Monday July 15, 2002 @04:43PM (#3889314) Homepage
    Three simple letters. That's all I wanted. How long must us iTunes whores be slaves to the mp3 format? Maybe the next iTunes release will support it, but I figure that if it's not in QT, it's not gonna be in iTunes.

    • Re:O. G. G. (Score:4, Insightful)

      by pigpen_ ( 56028 ) <leklund@tastytronic.net> on Monday July 15, 2002 @05:16PM (#3889594) Homepage
      My theory on OGG is that it will be implemented once there is a 1.0 release (which is now in CVS) and a spec. I don't think Apple would release a new iTunes with a beta codec that they know will change. For know I just use the handy quicktime component [sf.net] and my oggs play fine in iTunes. The iPod is a diifferent story. They might add it in as software but I don't think there are currently any chips that decode OGG in hardware. Although, I could be wrong about that.
      • Actually, you may have hit it on the head. While the method of decoding Vorbis is frozen, so any file encoded as Vorbis will decode with files from future Vorbis encoders, the encoder is not frozen. Given that iTunes is supposed to be a "total solution" for music, 'rip, mix, burn', as they put it, perhaps they're waiting for when they can make a total solution out of Vorbis, encoding and decoding. Before that happens, they'll surely wait for 1.0 to come out in its final form.

        While I have to disagree with this strategy, it's better than the grim possibility that they don't EVER plan to support it. :(

  • FCP users & QT6 (Score:2, Interesting)

    by AnamanFan ( 314677 )
    Anyone out there have Final Cut Pro and installed QT6 (without getting a new key)?

    I would like to be able to use the free parts of QT6 (Downloading trailers for one), but still be able to use FCP at full QT5Pro strength. If anyone out there has already done this, please post your experience. Thanks in advance!
  • Yes, it's time once again for file-format(and codec) roulette. Where you install an update to your media player, and wonder, which files that used to not play will play, and which files that used to play will not (as some obscure alpha codec you downloaded last year gets overwritten by it's broken progeny, or removed altogether by the installer looking to "tidy things up").

    I swear, with QT 3.0 I could play ANYTHING. Then with 4.0, a bunch of files just wouldn't play anymore, then with 5.0, a bunch more broke, and pretty much every new file coming out was in some bastardized version of DivX that either didn't work at all or had no audio, or had audio but no video, and I downloaded every codex imaginable, DivX, 3ivX, and every media-cleaner program, converter, translator, set of video tools, and nothing fucking fixed it - and nobody could offer a coherent explanation as to why.

    So should I install QT 6 - and watch another round of the player helplessly trying to download codecs that aren't there, never were there, and never will be there, while the player shows a white screen? Or should I go back to QT 3.0, where I can simply watch everything. (except the DivX crap).
  • I'm looking to dump Windows Media Player once and for all -- I'll accept whatever version ships with Windows 2000, but I've grown wear of having to worry about EULA updates and security holes in my friggin' video player, of all things. That being said, are there any known evil features in Quicktime 6? Things that Apple has built into it that will affect the way I work, without exception? DRM is the obvious example of this, but any addition info would be welcome...........
  • I just bought the unlock license for QT 5 Pro a few weeks ago. I just called a friendly Apple sales rep and asked if there were any opportunities to get a discount on the QT 6 unlock, or a refund on the QT 5 license. She indicated that there were no such opportunities, but that I should check back later. If anyone finds different, let us know.
  • Quicktime Broadcaster has also been released:

    http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/broadcas te r/
  • Ho hum. Still no Ogg Vorbis support.

    • Re:ogg vorbis (Score:2, Informative)

      by 90XDoubleSide ( 522791 )
      It's up to Ogg to make a component [apple.com] for QuickTime if they want to, and obviously they don't.

      Anyway, it includes AAC which produces noticebly better sound at smaller file sizes than Vorbis. (It's not free, but the point of QuickTime is that it provides affordable access to some great, commercial codecs; it's great technology, and it's licensed from Dolby, not those MPEG-4 patent owners.)

  • MPEG-4 patent licensing out (Score:4, Informative)

    by The Bastard ( 25271 ) on Monday July 15, 2002 @05:47PM (#3889917)
    Apple released on the same day MPEG-LA announced licensing fees for MPEG-4 Visual, Systems and MPEG-J patents. Details here [mpegla.com].

    • Re; MPEG-4 patent licensing (Score:4, Informative)

      by OrsonBallard ( 591846 ) <thor&crave,ca> on Monday July 15, 2002 @08:42PM (#3891168) Homepage
      All in all it looks pretty fair. No royalties paid at all from not-for-profit uses and no end user royalties, although these will have to be passed on eventually. As the car salesman says, "Register now and your first 12 months are free!"

      I wonder if history will remember that it was Apple (part of the patent group) that fought the proposal to charge a fee to the end user for every second of every stream viewed? And won.

      Thank-you Apple. Really.

  • Quicktime in Linux and such... (Score:3, Insightful)

    by Dr.Dubious DDQ ( 11968 ) on Monday July 15, 2002 @05:51PM (#3889959) Homepage

    Actually, quicktime seems to work quite well on linux via, for example, mplayer [mplayerhq.hu], with the sole exception that I've run into of SVQ3 (Sorenson, of course). SVQ1 is even working now, with optimized code (also appearing in FFMPEG [sourceforge.net]) based on the reverse engineering done by the folks working on Xine [slashdot.org]. Oddly enough, the specifications page for QT6 mentiones SVQ2 and SVQ3, but implies that it DOESN'T support SVQ1...

    If the release of QT6 means that MPEG4 will become the "default" codec for QuickTime movies as time goes on (as some posts, As well as several of the QuickTime pages at Apple [apple.com], are hinting), the "quicktime barrier" to video on linux will all but disappear, since as far as I can tell just about every variant of MPEG4 works on Linux in some form or another. I suppose this depends on how the dispute between Apple and Sorenson goes...(anybody heard anything about that lately?) and how long it takes someone to work out how to interpret the type of what I assume are "pointer files" or something of the sort on the previously mentioned apple Quicktime Mpeg4 page (mplayer seems to have trouble decoding them...)

    Of course, somewhere in here I should insert the obligatory comment about Ogg Theora [theora.org] and how I wish they'd hurry up and get the mailing lists working and get a working prototype that I can test, but as I can't think of what to say, I won't....

  • I'm definitely not upgrading to QT 6 Pro, since I just got QT 5 Pro before the announcement of 6 Pro.

  • Linux can now stream live video to Win/Mac clients (Score:3, Informative)

    by Karpe ( 1147 ) on Monday July 15, 2002 @06:03PM (#3890060) Homepage
    Thanks to MPEG4IP [sourceforge.net] MPEG-4 streaming capabilities, from an encoded MPEG-4 file (it has a converter, that can take XviD encoded AVIs and output .mp4), or live Video4Linux encoding. If only they could get rid of the patenting issues completely...

  • Oh whoopeee... (Score:2, Insightful)

    by spoco2 ( 322835 )
    Gee tops... I just downloaded it (WinXP) and still found:

    * It still puts an icon on the desktop and quicklaunch bar without asking

    * It now puts a system tray icon also without asking, did it use to do that?

    * It still always starts up with the damn 'Register now' dialog. Don't they make enough money via making it one of the standards out there and virtually forcing any company serious about video on the web to purchase QTPro in order to create compatible video? (I have no problem with that as a way of making money, I completely agree that if you're creating content for the web using their system, then, yup, pay for it, their prices are reasonable... but surely I shouldn't be bugged about the fact that this product exists when I have no desire to ever create a .mov file... I make MPEGs or Divx... :)

    * Still can't play fullscreen unless you pay for it

    * I still don't see why it's so damn loved... as cludgy as the interface of WMP is, at least I can easily create playlists by dragging my files into the player, can always play fullscreen and I don't have to put up with any 'register now' pretty please' dialogues.

    Of course I _have_ to have QT on my system if I want to watch all the latest movie trailers in nice quality, but their software isn't nice, it's intrusive, and I don't like that.

    (Of course it has nothing on Realplayer... man I dislike that!)
  • (does anyone actually use Windows Me?).
    Came on my laptop, a ToeCheezba Satellite, runs tolerably well, and is absolutely not worth the aggravation to upgrade.
    I'd sooner invest in a dot com than try to install my RH7.2 distro on here.
    Since you asked.
    • I'm stuck with ME on my Dell Latitude LS because I have an old DEC Roamabout (Wavelan) pre-802.11 wireless setup. There's no Win2k drivers. And I'm STILL out of a job and can't afford to get an access point and 802.11x card. Sigh.. I wish I had a Mac.
  • *Finally* an industry standard for streaming. This means the end of the Sorenson codec that has caused so many aches to Linux users.

    Real and Apple have commited to MPEG-4, the specification is open and there is no implementation fee (only a fee for non-free streams, ie free streams are not charged!)
    http://news.com.com/2100-1023-943990.html?tag=fd _t op

    This means that the new LOTR trailer and all future trailers can be viewed w/o proprietary codecs. Now all we need is for someone to deliver a MPEG-4 codec for Linux. I would help writing one, but I have no prior video experience.

    We need to rally behind MPEG-4 and bring it to our platform. Else we'll see Microsoft stealing the market with a DRM based proprietary WMP codecs!!

    Is there anyone working on MPEG-4 codecs for Linux besides these guys ?

  • This may be a dumb question (because since I run Linux and I own an old fashioned TV, and I love to go to movies in old fashioned multiplex's I have never really been into online video.) But if I were to run into some movie files online..and it wasn't advertised what codecs they required (or what version of what codec), how would I determine what codec (or what version of said codec) I needed to be able to partake of the wonder in front of me? It has always seemed pretty confusing to me. At least with audio if the extension is .mp3 I could be confident that 99% of players that advertised themselves as mp3 players would do the trick.

  • here's the EULA (Score:2, Redundant)

    by Maserati ( 8679 )
    The EULA is a pretty good one. Not like the MS licenses at all.

    Apple is now allowing downloads without entering an email address. They explicitly set the email address field off in a seperate box from the OS choice. The "Download" button is centered below both of them and can clearly be used with the email field empty. And the email field is under the heading "Subscribe to Newsletters". Very nice. How's that for privacy ? The two subscriptions checkboxes are even off by default.

    The EULA is standard boilerplate for Apple. It has all their usual media, disclaimer of warranty and tranfer of license clauses (You are permitted to sell your used Apple software). They also disclaim any responsibility for third-party websites. Lastly, they note that the MPEG-2 components are licensed solely for consumer use and not for " ENCODING VIDEO INFORMATION FOR PACKAGED MEDIA" (whatever packaged media really means), and then gives contact info for MPEG LA, LLC for other licensing arrangements (no URL). The Pro EULA may differ.

    Not bad. It says absolutely nothing about user created content. Since the free version doesn't allow much creation, the Pro version may again have a different license.

    Text of EULA follows.

    ENGLISH Apple Computer, Inc. Software License Agreement For QuickTime PLEASE READ THE TERMS OF THIS SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT ("LICENSE") WHICH IS EITHER ENCLOSED IN THE SOFTWARE PACKAGE AND/OR PRESENTED ELECTRONICALLY WHEN ACCESSING THE SOFTWARE. BY CLICKING THE "AGREE/ACCEPT" BUTTON, YOU ARE AGREEING TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF THIS LICENSE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS LICENSE, CLICK "DISAGREE/DECLINE" AND (IF APPLICABLE) RETURN THE APPLE SOFTWARE TO THE PLACE WHERE YOU OBTAINED IT FOR A REFUND. 1. General. The software, documentation and any fonts accompanying this License whether on disk, in read only memory, on any other media or in any other form (collectively the "Apple Software") are licensed, not sold, to you by Apple Computer, Inc. ("Apple") for use only under the terms of this License, and Apple reserves all rights not expressly granted to you. 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Upon the termination of this License, you shall cease all use of the Apple Software and destroy all copies, full or partial, of the Apple Software. 5. Limited Warranty on Media. Apple warrants the media on which the Apple Software is recorded and delivered by Apple to be free from defects in materials and workmanship under normal use for a period of ninety (90) days from the date of original retail purchase. Your exclusive remedy under this Section shall be, at Apple's option, a refund of the purchase price of the product containing the Apple Software or replacement of the Apple Software which is returned to Apple or an Apple authorized representative with a copy of the receipt. THIS LIMITED WARRANTY AND ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES ON THE MEDIA INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, OF SATISFACTORY QUALITY, AND OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, ARE LIMITED IN DURATION TO NINETY (90) DAYS FROM THE DATE OF ORIGINAL RETAIL PURCHASE. 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  • For all the QT6 delays Apple caused by refusing to pay MPEG-4 license fees, you'd think they'd include open formats like Ogg Vorbis and VP3 as a bit of a retort. Why'd they exclude them?

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