Apple's QuickTime 6.6 to offer improved audio, video
updated 01:35 pm EDT, Tue August 10, 2004
QuickTime 6.6
Apple's , offered along with latest build of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, will feature significant improvements to audio, video, and metadata, as well as add new Cocoa APIs, and numerous other enhancements, according to AppleInsider: "For developers, the software will offer new APIs for movie audio, sound conversion, audio extraction, movie export, and level and frequency metering. ...The changes will result in a much richer approach to sound in QuickTime, with support for higher sampling rates, such as 96kHz and 192kHz, multiple channels and multiple channel layouts, including 5.1 surround sound... Additionally, the release will introduce support for a variety of more accurate audio representations, such as 24-bit uncompressed audio, during capture, playback, and export."
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Why is a News Site...
Quoting a rumor site? I love Appleinsider. They are almost always right, but it IS a rumor site. Not sure why MacNN is quoting it as a legitimate news source.