QuickTime Last modified: Friday, January 03, 2003
A video and animation system developed by Apple Computer. QuickTime is built into the Macintosh operating system and is used by most Mac applications that include video or animation. PCs can also run files in QuickTime format, but they require a special QuickTime driver. QuickTime supports most encoding formats, including Cinepak, JPEG, and MPEG. QuickTime is competing with a number of other standards, including AVI and ActiveMovie. In February 1998, the ISO standards body gave Quicktime a boost by deciding to use it as the basis for the new MPEG-4 standard.
Apple's QuickTime home page  This is Apple Computer's Web site for QuickTime, the industry standard multimedia architecture. You can download QuickTime software and plug-in's from this page, view links to related sites, and read about recent announcements. Yahoo!'s QuickTime page Yahoo!'s directory of QuickTime.

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ActiveMovie animation Apple Computer AVI Cinepak codec Indeo MPEG multimedia QuickTime VR transcoding

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