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Quicktime 6, and MPEG-4 Licensing

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Apple official released Quicktime 6 today... And according to CNet, new licensing terms have been arranged:

Under the new terms, owners of Web site content can license the latest video and audio compression format for 25 cents per subscriber or 2 cents per hour, subject to a $1 million annual cap. Also, MPEG LA set a minimum threshold so that content owners with fewer than 50,000 subscribers aren't subject to royalties. The fees are applicable to Web site operators that benefit commercially from use of the technology, through either paid advertisements, pay-per-view services or subscriptions.

Previous terms had no annual cap.
 
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https://www.macrumors.com/2002/07/15/quicktime-6-and-mpeg-4-licensing/
i just got my pro key

and i'm ready to rock. AAC is super sweet and mp4 is nice. can't wait for vid and audio apps to support mpg4. imaging AAC and Flash? wow... but that won't happen for a while i guess.
 
broadcaster

still having trouble with broadcaster i made the spd file and sent it to a friend..they opened it up and get this component is missing crap..anybody have any ideas?
 
well the thing is to do..

a manual unicast you must have the other person's ip..i managed to get it to work on with a friend on her XP box but not with a friend on her dual gig X machine..go figure
 
Re: broadcaster

Originally posted by boobers
still having trouble with broadcaster i made the spd file and sent it to a friend..they opened it up and get this component is missing crap..anybody have any ideas?
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Worked for us...real nice even though there was a slight delay the quality was good!
 
quicktime pro

Please excuse my ignorance on this subject. I couldnt find any information on it at the apple site.

I have Quicktime 5 Pro. If I upgraded to quicktime 6, would it be the pro version? or do I have to pay for it again? I dont want to download 6 and have it delete Q5Pro. Anyone know about this
 
compatibility issues?

just wondering if anyone's had compatibility problems yet with apps like final cut pro, imovie, VLC (i use it for VCD), or the DiVX 5 alpha 2.
 
5.0 Pro

You Do Not get updates to QT 6 pro if you update from 5.0 Pro. You will need to buy the Pro version of QT 6 after updating. I did not know that and so I dont have Pro version now. Does anyone know how do I get my QT 5 back? Can I have QT 5 and 6 at the same time?? :(
 
Re: compatibility issues?

Originally posted by cmoney
just wondering if anyone's had compatibility problems yet with apps like final cut pro, imovie, VLC (i use it for VCD), or the DiVX 5 alpha 2.
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VLC is broke, in fact VLC has a notice on their downloads page about it, they blame Apple.

DivX 5 alpha 2 works beautfiully it's much much smoother than QT 5 and the quality is amazing. Unfortunately there's some "bug" in QT 6 that applies to mp3 audio in divx files. At least that's what divx.com claims in their readme for the mac plug-in. As a result you have to run all your files through their validator before they can be played by Quicktime. I find this ridiculous, that was the one fix that I hoped Apple would make to QT 6 and never did

:(
 
What the f....?

Great! :mad: Of course you can only download the US-English version, for all the other versions it say "Internal Server Error"!

If they don't have it so far, they shouldn't offer it on the page and give a date when it will be available!

Stuff like that starts to be typical for Apple! :(

groovebuster
 
Can someone please tell me if..

Can someone using QT 6 tell me whether it works with iMovie2? It didn't work (well, it crashed when I launched it..) with the preview version.

I'd really appreciate it. Thanx.
 
Re: Can someone please tell me if..

Originally posted by iapple
Can someone using QT 6 tell me whether it works with iMovie2? It didn't work (well, it crashed when I launched it..) with the preview version.

I'd really appreciate it. Thanx.
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From the horses mouth:
Will my QuickTime-based application support MPEG-4?
Any application that properly uses the Export component of QuickTime can create MPEG-4 files.


On another matter: is mpeg-2 supported yet? When the qt6 public preview was released, the apple web site said that mpeg-2 support would be incorporated into the final version. From what i've read on the qt pages at apple, that hasn't happened yet. Have i just missed it, or did apple not quite deliver?
 
Re: compatibility issues?

Originally posted by cmoney
just wondering if anyone's had compatibility problems yet with apps like final cut pro, imovie, VLC (i use it for VCD), or the DiVX 5 alpha 2.
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No problem in FCP, plus, even though I have also lost my 5 Pro, I can export in all formats from FCP, which is cool, if a little bit of a heavey handed way to convert stuff:D
 
QT6 MPEG4 is rubbish. It will not play well on my PowerBook G4 550. My 600MHz AMD duron PC runs it better. I have the faster Mac out of everyone I know, so how is anyone else going to play MPEG4. If Apple does not solve this problem I will have to think about getting a PC laptop (to do video presentations).
 
Re: quicktime pro

Originally posted by me hate windows
Please excuse my ignorance on this subject. I couldnt find any information on it at the apple site.

I have Quicktime 5 Pro. If I upgraded to quicktime 6, would it be the pro version? or do I have to pay for it again? I dont want to download 6 and have it delete Q5Pro. Anyone know about this
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http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/system_req.html
says:

"QuickTime 6 will replace older versions of QuickTime. A QuickTime 6 Pro key is required to unlock Pro functionality in QuickTime 6. If you wish to use a QuickTime 4 or 5 Pro key, you need to run an older version of QuickTime. Prior versions of QuickTime are available in our Technical Support area."

Can it be any more ambiguous? I think not.

I got there from the "Read Note to Quicktime Pro users" on the http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/
 
i'm having problems exporting a 75 meg music video to MP4. It exports the video but I get no audio at all. I looked in the options menu for the original, it tells me there's no audio...when I can hear my audio playing. Anyone having this problem? Anyone have the answer? Yes, I have the pro key for it, too
 
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