Just some more evidence of Apple abandoning the pro market, and forcing us to go in the direction they believe we should, like using H.264 - a codec that is not at ALL suitable for digital video production!!
I did some quick research, here is a complete list of Quicktime friendly codecs that are
not supported in AVFoundation (I did not compile this):
Not to mention DNxHD, Photo-JPEG (and I'm assuming many others) that are extensively used by professionals like myself...
However, I'd like to point out that OSX really likes
ProRes - which, as stated by someone in a diff forum:
So I guess I'll be switching to ProRes now...