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10/16/2003, 3:35pm, EDT

Thursday, October 16th

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Apple releases QuickTime 6.4

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Apple today released QuickTime 6.4, with extensive support for 3GPP, including video, audio, text, and native .3gp file format support; performance improvements, support for the Pixlet studio-grade codec; and support for Java 1.4.1. Users can import, export, and play back .3gp files with enhanced MPEG-4 and H.263 video codecs, a newly enhanced AAC audio codec, an AMR (Adaptive Multi-Rate) audio codec, a 3G Text importer and exporter, and a user-friendly 3GPP export dialog. It also offers DV encoding and decoding improvements and improved playback of both SD and HD streams. It is available for Mac OS 8/9/X and Windows 98/Me/2000/XP (standalone installer).

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128562 10/16, 3:53pm, EDT 3GPP! Whats it good for?
How can Mac users utilize 3GPP on thier desktops with this new version of quicktime.

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128564 10/16, 3:55pm, EDT For OS8/9?
I thought MacOS8/9 is dead.

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128567 10/16, 3:59pm, EDT What about OS 7.5?
You mena i might have to upgrade to Mac OS8? well... OK...

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128574 10/16, 4:05pm, EDT 3gpp
OK. I trust you. Give me 3gPP and a bigger cock.

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128577 10/16, 4:09pm, EDT Great...but...
Great update, and it's worth updating to.

However, here are a couple of the problems:

* QuickTime is still Carbon, not Cocoa.
* AMR Narrowband audio encoding is only available in 3GP files. It can't be used elsewhere.

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128583 10/16, 4:17pm, EDT Re: Great...but...
I am sick of hearing: Cocoa good, Carbon bad. QT is a low lever architecture and is probably written in plain C. It would only slow things down if you would rewrite it in Obj-C.

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128584 10/16, 4:20pm, EDT System Requirements
The System Requirements for Mac OS X say a 400 MHz PowerPC G3 or faster Macintosh computer. It seems to run fine on my 33 MHz PowerPC G3 iMac. (I know, it is time to upgrade)

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128586 10/16, 4:22pm, EDT System Requirements
Make that 333 Mhz iMac G3! Doh!

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128590 10/16, 4:48pm, EDT Is Plain C Faster?
Is Plain C Faster than using Cocoa's frameworks with Objective-C ?

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128591 10/16, 4:49pm, EDT 33 Mhz iMac
Wow buddy, I'd say it was definately time to upgrade.

Hilarious man!

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