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Apple releases QuickTime 6.4

updated 03:35 pm EDT, Thu October 16, 2003

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3GPP! Whats it good for?

How can Mac users utilize 3GPP on thier desktops with this new version of quicktime.

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For OS8/9?

I thought MacOS8/9 is dead.

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What about OS 7.5?

You mena i might have to upgrade to Mac OS8? well... OK...

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3gpp

OK. I trust you. Give me 3gPP and a bigger c***.

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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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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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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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System Requirements

Make that 333 Mhz iMac G3! Doh!

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Is Plain C Faster?

Is Plain C Faster than using Cocoa's frameworks with Objective-C ?

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33 Mhz iMac

Wow buddy, I'd say it was definately time to upgrade.

Hilarious man!

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Huh Cocoa

Obviously someone here has no idea as to the purpose of Cocoa. What an idiot.

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How to utilize 3GPP

I downloaded the 45 second "Hey Momma" iPod ad and exported it as a .3gp file. I then put it onto my cellphone via BlueTooth. The movie looks exactly the same on the phone as it does on the desktop (176x144,, H.263, MPEG-4 Audio, Stereo, 16000 Hz, Millions of colors) and the file is only 541.4k!!!

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3GPP

it is a great technology for mobile device.

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C is Faster

Plain C is much faster than Cocoa, but Cocoa is much easier to use as an API. When I write 3d mathematics code, I do it in C for speed, but I use an objective-C wrapper to ease of use. The main problem with quicktime is not that it's in C, or carbon, but that it has a very minimal and quite useless cocoa API, with only a fraction of the power of the C API. The C API is very hard to use in comparison to the Objective-C API.

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when will QT handle

.avi files? Every time I try to play one (under QT 6.3) it tells me:

"You may experience problems playing a video track in "file.avi" because the required compressor could not be found. Would you like to close the movie or continue?"

is this problem fixed?

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re: when will QT handle

- Solution -

Don't watch avi movies.

Problem solved, no more nasty error message.

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Cube won't reboot

I upgraded. Now my G4 Cube won't reboot. It stalls at the gray Apple logo.
Single user mode impossible to activate. Please help!

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Upgrade for Pro and MPEG2

Is there a free upgrade path to Pro and MPEG-2 license holders?

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CARBON ROCKS!

Objective-C is SLOWER than C or C++ period. This is a rare situation where you NEED SPEED!

Quicktime is MOSTLY non-GUI. Objective-C & COCOA are for gui work or application work.

Quicktime is a massive library, it should be written in whatever is BEST, which is C. Quicktime player can be done in objective-C because that would be best; h*** it could be done in java for all we care; nobody would notice.

All we need is a nice set of wrapper classes for C++ and Objective-C.

Darwin Streaming Server is done in PERL, because its the BEST lanuage for a streaming server. think about it.

FYI on Languages:
C is faster at most stuff, C++ is nearly tied with C, but its speed depends on the compiler, and to some extent how the programmer programs....compilers target certain styles, and C++ is so open ended that many use it poorly, so C is faster "realistically".

Objective-C is fast, and with more compiler support, probably is just as fast as the C/C++ pair. However, it has design choices that will cause it to ALWAYS be slower than C/C++ due to the amount of run-time work it performs.

Perl is the FASTEST scripting language. Its the duct tape for the internet and unix. Its about 40x slower than C, but it clobbers other scripting languages by even larger margins. It even beats some compiled languages in some cases.

Java is great, but too OOP. Its SLOWEST. the JVM can get it running quite well for complex programs. Its perfect for GUI applications, which do not need speed. (in which case, take time-critical stuff out and do that in C----ah, like quicktime 4 java....)

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OS 9

There's an error in MacNN report.
Quicktime for OS 9 is still at 6.0.3 (and will always be.)

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not apple's fault

" .avi files? Every time I try to play one (under QT 6.3) it tells me:

"You may experience problems playing a video track in "file.avi" because the required compressor could not be found. Would you like to close the movie or continue?"

is this problem fixed?"

this is not a problem with Quicktime. this is a problem with people using codecs (mostly MS ones) that are not compatible with Quicktime. most of these AVI files you speak of are DIVX that contain an MS audio codec that QT does not support. the two most common plugins you need to get for QT are DIVX and 3IVX. that should play "most" everything. for the movies that won't play use VLC or MPlayer. Again, don't ask for something to be fixed that isn't broke. It's not Apple's fault.

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AVI's

Go download MPlayer or VLC if you want to view .avi's under Mac OS X...

--Robert

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divx probably not a prob

At least you can get divx for OSX, I still see a lot of indeo-compressed avi's, and there is no OSX indeo coded.

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i263

still no i263 codec... bummer

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Cocoa vs. Carbon

We rewrote our large and heavily hardware dependent applications in Cocoa and found a significant speed and stability increase over our previous Carbon versions. And now that we've made the move to Cocoa, we've found it much easier to work and integrate with Mac OS X.

The whole "C++ is faster than ObjC" argument is bogus. It's all in the compilers you use and how you write your code.

At the very least, Apple could move QuickTime toward utilizing Cocoa wrapper code as well as finally provide QuickTime Frameworks.

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QuickTime Kernel Ext.

Why isn't QuickTime a Kernel Extension? Should it be integral to the whole Mac OS X experience?

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opera dos,t open

hi ,ihave a difficult. ican,t see my e-mails on opera.
please help me.thanks
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Apple releases QuickTime 6.4

updated 03:35 pm EDT, Thu October 16, 2003

3GPP! Whats it good for?

For OS8/9?

What about OS 7.5?

3gpp

Great...but...

Re: Great...but...

System Requirements

System Requirements

Is Plain C Faster?

33 Mhz iMac

Huh Cocoa

How to utilize 3GPP

3GPP

C is Faster

when will QT handle

re: when will QT handle

Cube won't reboot

Upgrade for Pro and MPEG2

CARBON ROCKS!

OS 9

not apple's fault

AVI's

divx probably not a prob

i263

Cocoa vs. Carbon

QuickTime Kernel Ext.

opera dos,t open

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