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Apple Releases QuickTime 7.5.5
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There's a huge update inside this.
Like I said before.
Surround Sound..
That's what I was wondering about. We can do Dolby Digital now? I know you could before with Perian, but the last Quicktime update broke it. Do the new HD TV shows have surround sound?
AAC 5.1 has been around for a while. If Front Row/Quicktime has the ability to transcode to DD5.1 on the fly, that would be great. We'll see...
The would be very, very nice and put me a step closer to considering Apple TV. 1080p would help, too, but that's a different story.
What's particularly pathetic about Quicktime is that there are freeware apps that smoke it in both video codecs and audio passthrough. For example, Plex not only decodes decrypted Blu-Ray (yes, even on a Mini), but it can also passthrough DD, True-HD, DTS and DTS-HD through the optical port. Quicktime has trouble doing any of this. Let's hope that Apple has fixed this embarrassing omission in QT, and its home theater surrogate, Front Row.
AAC 5.1 into AC3 on the fly? Otherwise, what's the point... I'd have to have a receiver that understood another digital standard.
Does anyone know if this FINALLY fixes the HD choppy playback that those of us with PowerPCs have been dealing with since 7.0 came out?
Well after testing the same things I've tested after every revision of QuickTime 7, and given feedback on at least a few times ... minimised movies still don't get an icon badge in the dock, and the export dialog still doesn't remember position preference. Nevermind.
