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QuickTime

QuickTime (or QuickTime Player, referred to officially as QuickTime X in Mac OS X Snow Leopard) is an extensible multimedia architecture created by Apple, which supports playing, streaming, encoding, and transcoding a variety of digital media formats. The term QuickTime also refers to the QuickTime Player front-end media player application, which is…

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Developer
Apple
Operating system
macOS Discontinued: Windows, Classic Mac OS
Release
December 2, 1991; 34 years ago (1991-12-02)
Stable release
10.5 (updated as part of macOS, with only build number increments)

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QuickTime framework

QuickTime Player

File formats

History

Creating software that uses QuickTime

Bugs and vulnerabilities

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QuickTime

Nodes177
Edges176
Triples254
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.011299
Components1

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QuickTime

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related to QuickTime and MPEG-4 · 24
QuickTime → Accordingly, Annex, Apple Computer Inc, By, Format, Format ISO/IEC, In, ISO, ISO Base Media File, ISO/IEC, It, Motion JPEG, MP4, MP4 Family, MPEG, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, MPEG-4 Part, On February
related to QuickTime 3.x · 21
QuickTime → Apple, Apple-provided MoviePlayer, FireWire, GIF, GS Format, It, JPEG, Mac OS, March, MIDI, MoviePlayer, Pro, QDesign Music, QuickTime Pro, QuickTime-compatible, Roland Sound Canvas, Since, Some, Sorenson Video, The
related to QuickTime 7.x · 19
QuickTime → Application, April, AVC, AVCHD, Cocoa, Core Audio, Core Image, Core Video, Improved MPEG-4, Initially, Mac OS, MPEG-4 AVC, Not, QTKit, Quartz Composer, QuickTime Kit Framework, Sony HD, Sound Manager, Support
related to QuickTime 4.x · 17
QuickTime → Apple, GIF, Graphics, It, June, LZW, Mac OS, Macintosh, MP3, MPEG-1 Layer, Player, QDesign Music, QuickTime Streaming Server, Support, Three, Windows, Windows NT
related to File formats · 16
QuickTime → AIFF, ASF, DivX Media Format, DV-DIF, Each, Flash Video, Matroska, MP3, MPEG, Ogg, Other, QuickTime Components, QuickTime File Format, The, WAV, With
related to Bibliography · 13
QuickTime → Basic Movie Playback, Ferncase, Filmmakers, Francis, ISBN, July, Media Types, Monroe, Morgan Kaufmann, QuickTime Toolkit Volume One, Richard, Taylor, Tim
related to QuickTime 6.x · 13
QuickTime → AAC Audio, Apple, Apple's MPEG-2 Playback Component, Exif, Flash, Instant-on, JPEG, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, MPEG-4 Part, On July, Scriptable ActiveX, Support
related to QuickTime Player X · 13
QuickTime → Apple, Lion, Mac OS, No, Optional Installs, OS, Otherwise, Pro, QuickTime Player, Snow Leopard, Snow Leopard DVD, Users, Utilities
related to QuickTime X · 12
QuickTime → APIs, AVFoundation, AVKit, GPU, It, June, Mac OS, QTKit Framework, QuickTime Ten, Since, WWDC, YouTube
related to Previous versions · 10
QuickTime → API, COM/ActiveX, Developers, Image Compression Manager, Java, Mac, Movie Toolbox, SDK, The Movie Toolbox, Windows

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support apple video windows mac os version macos released mpeg-4 player audio file codecs format media formats movie versions framework

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
QuickTimeDeveloperApple1.00infobox
QuickTimeOperating systemmacOS Discontinued: Windows, Classic Mac OS1.00infobox
QuickTimeReleaseDecember 2, 1991; 34 years ago (1991-12-02)1.00infobox
QuickTimeStable release10.5 (updated as part of macOS, with only build number increments)1.00infobox
QuickTimeWebsitesupport.apple.com/quicktime1.00infobox
XviD or 3ivxinstance ofencoders0.80text
QTVRinstance ofwhich can be downloaded at Bitbucket.QuickTime 7 may still be required to support older formats on Snow Leopard0.80text
interactive QuickTime moviesinstance ofwhich can be downloaded at Bitbucket.QuickTime 7 may still be required to support older formats on Snow Leopard0.80text
and MIDI filesinstance ofwhich can be downloaded at Bitbucket.QuickTime 7 may still be required to support older formats on Snow Leopard0.80text
QuickTimerelated to BibliographyFerncase0.60section
QuickTimerelated to BibliographyRichard0.60section
QuickTimerelated to BibliographyFilmmakers0.60section

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