Quicktime 6.1 Due

MacRumors · Dec 11, 2002

MacCentral reports that Apple will be releasing a new version of Quicktime before the end of the year to support new 3G cell phones and the 3GPP technology, based on MPEG4:

"This is the next step in the delivery of a promise we made when we announced QuickTime 6 with MPEG-4 capability," Rhonda Stratton, senior product line manager, QuickTime, told MacCentral. "We started to see some things on the Internet with MPEG-4, but now we are seeing another industry pick up the standard for 3GPP, which is based on MPEG-4."

One of our sources had told us that Quicktime 6.1 is almost ready with some new features... and that the MPEG2 component will get a sister.

Sublime · Dec 11, 2002

Sister?

Let the sister be divx please. Thanks.

FatTony · Dec 11, 2002

divx?

Is there any legitimate divx content out there? It seems to me that I've only seen it used for pirated movies and porn.

impierced · Dec 11, 2002

Could it be the "sister" is an MPEG-2 encoder...

richard5mith · Dec 11, 2002

A story over at MOSR said divx was coming, because it was one of the choices for video codec in the iChat video conferencing (along with ogg vorbis for audio, which the next version of iTunes will probably have).

Bradcoe · Dec 11, 2002

DivX is 2 legit to quit

DivX is completely legit. Porn is not a reason for it to be illegitament either. The fact that you see lots of illege movie copies in divx format just gives it a bad name. It's a pretty decent codec compared to what else is out there. New DVD players are even starting to encorporate Divx ability from the manufacturer. Not to mention hackable players that let you modify the code in them to play other codecs.

yoonsik99 · Dec 11, 2002

Having supports for Divx will be great since I am having hard time to watch those DIVX movies on my mac..

I wish this speculation of incoporating Divx can be realised as true near future..

Cheers!

dricci · Dec 11, 2002

DivX seems like a catch all for a bunch of hacked Mpeg4 codecs from Microsoft. It's a very crappy codec used for very crappy things, it's not even an official standard, which is why there is so much trouble playing them on a Mac due to so many different things that can go wrong.

If you want to encode, used Mpeg4. It'll play on many computers and devices without hacking because it's an open standard.

Tue12 · Dec 11, 2002

Except for the content Apple provided, I haven't seen any MPEG4 content on the web.

It's a big flop?

richard5mith · Dec 11, 2002

Problems playing divx on your Mac? See here...

http://www.allapple.com/article.plm/47

Have a problem no longer. And no messing around with converting or doctoring your avi's just so you can play them.

Skandranon · Dec 11, 2002

You know what I smell?

Wireless 3GPP? Cell phone integration? New version of QuickTime to coincide the release of new phones?

I smell iPhone.

😎

chewbaccapits · Dec 11, 2002

Freaken APPLE..

Will QUICKTIME ever support AVI's????What the hell?...Hasn't APPLE notice this??

medea · Dec 11, 2002

good news, and apple should be releasing a version of quicktime 6 for cell phones in japan soon https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=15582 😀

lazyrighteye · Dec 11, 2002

Do people really think Apple is gonna do a phone? Well I know people think so, but really? Not just a pipe dream? I just don't see how it would/could work - with all the service providers out there, blah, blah, blah.

About the "MPEG2 component will get a sister" comment...
Ever since upgrading to QT6 Pro, I have lost the ability to export mpeg2 for DVDs. It's all mpeg4. This effects FCP, DVD Studio Pro, AE, etc.
So, have I lost the ability to burn custom DVDs?

lazyrighteye

railthinner · Dec 11, 2002

rumor monger

what about supporting Apple's new personal video player/recorder?

have you seen this?
http://www.sharp.co.jp/pav/

ipav would be nice.
mp4 is no flop in Japan.

cryptochrome · Dec 11, 2002

Re: Freaken APPLE..

Originally posted by chewbaccapits
Will QUICKTIME ever support AVI's????What the hell?...Hasn't APPLE notice this??

The www.macosrumors.com article implied that it will support AVIs fully (it's about freakin' time too!) but of course I'll believe it when I see it. In the meantime, mPlayer is actually very good, and appears to give better framerates than doctored avis in quicktime. It plays EVERYTHING, and although the os x version doesn't have it yet it even does Windows Media Audio.

arn · Dec 11, 2002

Re: Re: Freaken APPLE..

Originally posted by cryptochrome

The www.macosrumors.com article implied that it will support AVIs fully (it's about freakin' time too!) but of course I'll believe it when I see it. In the meantime, mPlayer is actually very good, and appears to give better framerates than doctored avis in quicktime. It plays EVERYTHING, and although the os x version doesn't have it yet it even does Windows Media Audio.

AVI's are not a specific format... but a container format.

Certain older codecs that were used in AVI's have never been ported to the Mac... and likely never will.

MOSR was refering to Divx's specifically.

arn

LordRPI · Dec 11, 2002

Re: Freaken APPLE..

Originally posted by chewbaccapits
Will QUICKTIME ever support AVI's????What the hell?...Hasn't APPLE notice this??

I've spoken to Frank Casanova himself about this. I doubt there will be AVI or even DivX support in the next version of the player... I just hope he took my comment about free full screen seriously...

richard5mith · Dec 11, 2002

The Linux version of mPlayer actually does Windows Media Video right up to the v9 codecs, as well as WMA, which is more than I can get WMP on the Mac to do.

I spoke to the developer of the OS X version and he said this was unlikely for the Mac version because as far as he knew it relied on Microsoft's x86 dll's to work.

medea · Dec 11, 2002

Re: rumor monger

Originally posted by railthinner
what about supporting Apple's new personal video player/recorder?

have you seen this?
http://www.sharp.co.jp/pav/

ipav would be nice.
mp4 is no flop in Japan.

hmm, I could really see something like that being the next iPod....but perhaps that is for a different topic. but the cell phone thing lazyrighteye is about bringing quicktime to cellphones not bringing out an apple cell phone and it is also true.

asparagui · Dec 11, 2002

Tue....

Here's some MP4 content for ya, if you're bored.

Speed and 3AM are a couple of my recent projects.

-Brett

railthinner · Dec 11, 2002

It may be for a different topic but my wild speculation is that upcoming QT updates are for a far greater product (my opinion) than an iphone.

NeXTCube · Dec 11, 2002

Re: rumor monger

Originally posted by railthinner
what about supporting Apple's new personal video player/recorder?

have you seen this?
http://www.sharp.co.jp/pav/

ipav would be nice.
mp4 is no flop in Japan.

Dude, you just pegged my cool-o-meter!

The iPod, while cool, just too much money for me to justify...but a portable movie player, well, that's another story!

lazyrighteye · Dec 11, 2002

I see some reasons, but would like to hear from others why Joe Average wants QT ability on their phone?
Are we talking video phoning here or somethign else?
Thanks.

RandomMacGuy · Dec 11, 2002

Quicktime's DivX Problems != Lack of DivX Support

Apple doesn't need to support divx. There are many quickime components out there that will decode the DivX or XviD or 3ivx video that you have. The problem is with how quicktime plays avi containers that have muxed mp3 audio streams. If apple fixes this and does it right, I can just use the quicktime components that I already have.

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