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QuickTime

QuickTime 7.5 Player under Windows Vista.

Developed by Apple Inc.
Initial release December 2, 1991
Stable release 7.50.61.0 (June 9, 2008; 53 days ago) [+/−]
Preview release 7.6 [A96/98] (June 25, 2008) [+/−]
OS Mac OS X, Windows XP and Vista
Available in Multilingual
Genre Multimedia framework
License Proprietary
Website www.apple.com/quicktime/

QuickTime 7.5 Player under Mac OS X Leopard

QuickTime is a multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc., capable of handling various formats of
digital video, media clips, sound, text, animation, music, and several types of interactive panoramic images.
Available for Linux, Classic Mac OS, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows operating systems, it provides
essential support for software packages including iTunes, QuickTime Player (which can also serve as a
helper application for web browsers to play media files that might otherwise fail to open) and Safari.

Contents

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• 1 Overview
• 2 QuickTime players
• 3 QuickTime Pro
• 4 QuickTime framework
o 4.1 Audio
o 4.2 Video
• 5 QuickTime file format
o 5.1 QuickTime and MPEG-4
 5.1.1 Profile support
 5.1.2 Container benefits
• 6 History
o 6.1 QuickTime 1.x
o 6.2 QuickTime 2.x
o 6.3 QuickTime 3.x
 6.3.1 QuickTime interactive
o 6.4 QuickTime 4.x
o 6.5 QuickTime 5.x
o 6.6 QuickTime 6.x
o 6.7 QuickTime 7.x
o 6.8 QuickTime X
• 7 Creating software that uses QuickTime
• 8 Criticisms
• 9 Vulnerabilities
• 10 See also
• 11 References
Mac OS X graphics model
• 12 External links

[edit] Overview
Rendering
The QuickTime technology consists of
QuickDraw • Core OpenGL • Quartz 2D • Core Image
the following:
Core Animation • Core Video • ColorSync • QuickTime
Compositing
1. The QuickTime Player Quartz Compositor
application created by Apple,
which is a media player.
This box: view • talk • edit
2. The QuickTime framework,
which provides a common set of APIs for encoding and decoding audio and video.
3. The QuickTime Movie (.mov) file format, an openly-documented media container.

QuickTime is integral to Mac OS X, as it was with earlier versions of Mac OS. All Apple systems ship with
QuickTime already installed, as it represents the core media framework for Mac OS X. QuickTime is
optional for Windows systems, although many software applications require it. Apple bundles it with each
iTunes for Windows download, but it is also available as a standalone installation.

Software development kits (SDKs) for QuickTime are available to the public with a free Apple Developer
Connection (ADC) subscription.

[edit] QuickTime players

QuickTime is distributed free of charge. Some other free player applications that rely on the QuickTime
framework provide features not available in the basic QuickTime Player. For example:

• iTunes can export audio in WAV, AIFF, MP3, AAC, and Apple Lossless.
• In Mac OS X, a simple AppleScript can be used to play a movie in full-screen mode.[1] However,
since version 7.2 the QuickTime Player now also supports full-screen viewing in the non-pro
version.[2]

Any application can be written to access features provided by the QuickTime framework.

[edit] QuickTime Pro

The included QuickTime Player is limited to only the most basic playback operations unless the user
purchases a QuickTime Pro license key, which Apple sells for US$29.95. Apple's "ProApplications" (e.g.
Logic Studio) come with a free QuickTime Pro license. Pro keys are specific to the major version of
QuickTime for which they are purchased. The Pro key unlocks additional features of the QuickTime Player
application on Mac OS X or Windows (although most of these can be accessed simply by using players,
video editors or miscellaneous utilities from other sources).[3] Use of the Pro key does not entail any
additional downloads.

Features enabled by the Pro license include, but are not limited to:

• Editing clips through the Cut, Copy and Paste functions, merging separate audio and video tracks,
and freely placing the video tracks on a virtual canvas with the options of cropping and rotation.
• Saving and exporting (encoding) to any of the codecs supported by QuickTime. QuickTime 7
includes presets for exporting video to a video-capable iPod, Apple TV, and the iPhone.
• Saving existing QuickTime Movies (*.mov) from the web directly to a hard disk drive. This is
often, but not always, either hidden or intentionally blocked in the standard mode.

[edit] QuickTime framework

The QuickTime framework provides the following:

• Encoding and transcoding video and audio from one format to another.
• Decoding video and audio, then sending the decoded stream to the graphics or audio subsystem
for playback. In Mac OS X, QuickTime sends video playback to the Quartz Extreme (OpenGL)
Compositor.[4]
• A plug-in architecture for supporting additional codecs (such as DivX).

As of early 2008 the framework hides many of the older codecs below from view. Users must choose
"Show legacy encoders" in QuickTime Preferences to use them.[5] The framework supports the following
file types and codecs natively:[6]

[edit] Audio
 • Apple Lossless
• Audio Interchange (AIFF)
• Digital Audio: Audio CD - 16-bit (CDDA), 24-bit, 32-bit integer & floating point, and 64-bit
floating point
• MIDI
• MPEG-1 Layer 3 Audio (.mp3)
• MPEG-4 AAC Audio (.m4a, .m4b, .m4p)
• QDesign Music
• Qualcomm PureVoice (QCELP)
• Sun AU Audio
• ULAW and ALAW Audio
• Waveform Audio (WAV)

[edit] Video

• 3GPP & 3GPP2 file formats

• AVI file format
• Bitmap (BMP) codec and file format
• DV file (DV NTSC/PAL and DVC Pro NTSC/PAL codecs)
• Flash & FlashPix files
• GIF and Animated GIF files
• H.261, H.263, and H.264 codecs
• JPEG, Photo JPEG, and JPEG-2000 codecs and file formats
• MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and MPEG-4 Video file formats and associated codecs (such as AVC)
• Quartz Composer Composition (.qtz, Mac OS X only)
• QuickTime Movie (.mov) and QTVR movies
• Sorenson Video 2 and 3 codecs
• Other video codecs: Apple Video, Cinepak, Component Video, Graphics, and Planar RGB
• Other still image formats: PNG, TIFF, and TGA
• Cached information from streams: QTCH

[edit] QuickTime file format

QuickTime Movie
.mov
Filename extension
.qt

Internet media type video/quicktime

Type code MooV

Uniform Type Identifier com.apple.quicktime-movie
Developed by Apple Inc.
Type of format Media container
Container for Audio, video, text

The QuickTime (.mov) file format functions as a multimedia container file that contains one or more tracks,
each of which stores a particular type of data: audio, video, effects, or text (for subtitles, for example). Each
track either contains a digitally-encoded media stream (using a specific codec) or a data reference to the
media stream located in another file. Tracks are maintained in a hierarchal data structure consisting of
objects called atoms. An atom can be a parent to other atoms or it can contain media or edit data, but it
cannot do both.[7]

The ability to contain abstract data references for the media data, and the separation of the media data from
the media offsets and the track edit lists means that QuickTime is particularly suited for editing, as it is
capable of importing and editing in place (without data copying). Other later-developed media container
formats such as Microsoft's Advanced Systems Format or the open source Ogg and Matroska containers
lack this abstraction, and require all media data to be rewritten after editing.

Other file formats that QuickTime supports natively (to varying degrees) include AIFF, WAV, DV, MP3,
and MPEG-1. With additional QuickTime Extensions, it can also support Ogg, ASF, FLV, MKV, DivX
Media Format, and others.

[edit] QuickTime and MPEG-4

To create an MP4 file, choose MPEG-4 in the Export dialog.

On February 11, 1998 the ISO approved the QuickTime file format as the basis of the MPEG-4 Part 14
(.mp4) container standard. By 2000, MPEG-4 Part 14 became an industry standard, first appearing with
support in QuickTime 6 in 2002. Accordingly, the MPEG-4 container is designed to capture, edit, archive,
and distribute media, unlike the simple file-as-stream approach of MPEG-1 and MPEG-2.[8]

[edit] Profile support

QuickTime 6 added limited support for MPEG-4; specifically encoding and decoding using Simple Profile
(SP). Advanced Simple Profile (ASP) features, like B-frames, were unsupported (in contrast with, for
example, encoders such as XviD or 3ivx). QuickTime 7 supports the H.264 encoder and decoder.[9]

[edit] Container benefits

Use Passthrough to change to the MP4 container without re-encoding the stream.

Because both the MOV and MP4 containers can use the same MPEG-4 codecs, they are mostly
interchangeable in a QuickTime-only environment. However, MP4, being an international standard, has
more support. This is especially true on hardware devices, such as the Sony PSP and various DVD players;
on the software side, most DirectShow / Video for Windows codec packs[10][11] include an MP4 parser, but
not one for MOV.
In QuickTime Pro's MPEG-4 Export dialog, an option called "Passthrough" allows a clean export to MP4
without affecting the audio or video streams.
QuickTime platform compatibility
One recent discrepancy ushered in by
QuickTime 7 is that the MOV file format now Macintosh
supports multichannel audio (used, for OS Latest version
example, in the high-definition trailers on System 6.0.0-System 6.0.6 1.x or 2.x?[citation needed]
Apple's site[12]), while QuickTime's support for System 6.0.7-System 7.0.1 2.5
audio in the MP4 container is limited to (68K) System 7.1-8.1 4.0.3
stereo.[citation needed] Therefore multichannel audio (PPC) System 7.1.2-[System 7.5.3] 4.0.3
must be re-encoded during MP4 export.[citation
needed] (PPC) System 7.5.5-8.5.1 5.0.5
Mac OS 8.6-9.2.2 6.0.3
Mac OS 10.0.4 5.0 (bundled)
[edit] History
Mac OS 10.1.5 6.3.1
Apple released the first version of QuickTime Mac OS 10.2.8 6.5.3
on December 2, 1991 as a multimedia add-on Mac OS 10.3.9 7.5 (current)
for System Software 6 and later. The lead Mac OS 10.4.11 7.5 (current)
developer of QuickTime, Bruce Leak, ran the Mac OS 10.5.4 7.5 (current)
first public demonstration at the May 1991 Windows
Worldwide Developers Conference, where he OS Latest version
played Apple's famous 1984 TV commercial
Windows 3.1x/Windows NT 3.1-3.5 2.1.2
on a Mac, at the time an astounding
technological breakthrough. Microsoft's Windows NT 3.51 2.1.2
competing technology — Video for Windows Windows 95 5.0.5
— did not appear until November 1992. Windows NT 4.0 6.1
Windows 98/ME 6.5.2
[edit] QuickTime 1.x Windows 2000 7.1.6
Windows XP/Vista 7.5 (current)
That first version of QuickTime laid down the basic architecture which survives essentially unchanged
today, including multiple movie tracks, extensible media type support, an open-ended file format, and a full
complement of editing functions. The original video codecs included:

• the Apple Video codec (also known as "Road Pizza"), suited to normal live-action video
• the Animation codec, which used simple run-length encoding and better suited cartoon-type
images with large areas of flat color
• the Graphics codec, optimized for 8-bit images, including ones that had undergone dithering

The first commercial project produced using QuickTime 1.0 was the CD-ROM From Alice to Ocean. The
first publicly visible use of QuickTime was Ben & Jerry's interactive factory tour (dubbed The Rik & Joe
Show after its in-house developers). The Rik and Joe Show was demonstrated onstage at MacWorld in San
Francisco when John Sculley announced QuickTime.

Apple released QuickTime 1.5 for Mac OS in the latter part of 1992. This added the SuperMac-developed
Cinepak vector-quantization video codec (initially known as Compact Video), which managed the
previously unheard-of feat of playing back video at 320×240 resolution at 30 frames per second on a 25
MHz 68040 CPU. It also added text tracks, which allowed for things like captioning, lyrics, etc., at very
little addition to the size of a movie.

In an effort to increase the adoption of QuickTime, Apple contracted an outside company, San Francisco
Canyon Company, to port QuickTime to the Windows platform. Version 1.0 of QuickTime for Windows
provided only a subset of the full QuickTime API, including only movie playback functions driven through
the standard movie controller.
QuickTime 1.6.x came out the following year. Version 1.6.2 first incorporated the "QuickTime PowerPlug"
which replaced some components with PowerPC-native code when running on PowerPC Macs.

[edit] QuickTime 2.x

Apple released QuickTime 2.0 for Mac OS in February 1994 — the only version never released for free. It
added support for music tracks, which contained the equivalent of MIDI data and which could drive a
sound-synthesis engine built into QuickTime itself (using a limited set of instrument sounds licensed from
Roland), or any external MIDI-compatible hardware, thereby producing sounds using only small amounts
of movie data.

Following Bruce Leak's departure to Web TV the leadership of the QuickTime team was taken over by
Peter Hoddie.

QuickTime 2.0 for Windows appeared in November 1994 under the leadership of Paul Charlton. As part of
the development effort for cross-platform QuickTime, Charlton and technical lead Michael Kellner ported a
subset of the Macintosh Toolbox to Intel and other platforms (notably, MIPS and SGI Unix variants) as the
enabling infrastructure for the QuickTime Media Layer (QTML) which was first demonstrated at the Apple
WorldWide Developer Conference (WWDC) in May of 1996. The QTML later became the foundation for
the Carbon API which allowed legacy Macintosh applications to run on the Darwin kernel in Mac OS X.

The next versions, 2.1 and 2.5, reverted to the previous model of giving QuickTime away for free. They
improved the music support and added sprite tracks which allowed the creation of complex animations with
the addition of little more than the static sprite images to the size of the movie. QuickTime 2.5 also fully
integrated QuickTime VR 2.0.1 into QuickTime as a QuickTime extension. On January 16, 1997, Apple
released the QuickTime MPEG Extension (PPC only) as an add-on to QuickTime 2.5, which added
software MPEG-1 playback capabilities to QuickTime.

[edit] QuickTime 3.x

The release of QuickTime 3.0 for Mac OS on March 30, 1998 introduced the now-standard revenue model
of releasing the software for free, but with additional features of the Apple-provided MoviePlayer
application that end-users could only unlock by buying a QuickTime Pro license code. Since the "Pro"
features were the same as the existing features in QuickTime 2.5, any previous user of QuickTime could
continue to use an older version of the central MoviePlayer application for the remaining lifespan of Mac
OS to 2002; indeed, since these additional features were limited to MoviePlayer, any other QuickTime-
compatible application remained unaffected.

QuickTime 3.0 added support for graphics importer components that could read images from GIF, JPEG,
TIFF and other file formats, and video output components which served primarily to export movie data via
FireWire. Apple also licensed several third-party technologies for inclusion in QuickTime 3.0, including the
Sorenson Video codec for advanced video compression, the QDesign Music codec for substantial audio
compression, and the complete Roland Sound Canvas instrument set and GS Format extensions for
improved playback of MIDI music files. It also added video effects which programmers could apply in real-
time to video tracks. Some of these effects would even respond to mouse clicks by the user, as part of the
new movie interaction support (known as wired movies).

[edit] QuickTime interactive

During the development cycle for QuickTime 3.0 part of the engineering team was working on a more
advanced version of QuickTime to be known as QuickTime interactive or QTi. Although similar in
concept to the wired movies feature released as part of QuickTime 3.0, QuickTime interactive was much
more ambitious. It allowed any QuickTime movie to be a fully interactive and programmable container for
media. A special track type was added that contained an interpreter for a custom programming language
based on 68000 assembly language. This supported a comprehensive user interaction model for mouse and
keyboard event handling based in part on the AML language from the Apple Media Tool.

The QuickTime interactive movie was to have been the playback format for the next generation of
HyperCard authoring tool. Unfortunately both the QuickTime interactive and the HyperCard 3.0 projects
were canceled in order to concentrate engineering resources on streaming support for QuickTime 4.0, and
the projects were never released to the public.

[edit] QuickTime 4.x

Apple released QuickTime 4.0 on June 8, 1999[13] for Mac OS 7.5.5 through 8.6 (later Mac OS 9) and
Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows NT. Three minor updates (versions 4.0.1, 4.0.2, and 4.0.3)
followed.[14] It introduced features that most users now consider basic:[15]

• Graphics exporter components, which could write some of the same formats that the previously-
introduced importers could read. (GIF support was omitted, possibly because of the LZW patent.)
• Support for the QDesign Music 2 and MPEG-1 Layer 3 audio (MP3)
• QuickTime 4 was the first version to support streaming. It was accompanied by the release of the
free QuickTime Streaming Server version 1.0.

On December 17, 1999, Apple provided QuickTime 4.1, this version's first major update.[13] Two minor
versions (4.1.1 and 4.1.2) followed.[16] The most notable improvements in the 4.1.x family were:[17]

• Support for files larger than 2.0 GB in Mac OS 9. (This is a consequence of Mac OS 9 requiring
the HFS Plus filesystem.)
• Variable bit rate (VBR) support for MPEG-1 Layer 3 (MP3) audio
• Support for Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL)
• Introduction of AppleScript support in Mac OS
• The requirement of a PowerPC processor for Mac OS systems. QuickTime 4.1 dropped support
for Motorola 68k Macintosh systems.

[edit] QuickTime 5.x

QuickTime 5 was one of the shortest-lived versions of QuickTime, released in April 2001 and superseded
by QuickTime 6 a little over a year later. This version was the last to have greater capabilities under Mac
OS 9 than under Mac OS X, and the last version of QuickTime to support Mac OS versions 7.5.5 through
8.5.1 on a PowerPC Mac and Windows 95. Version 5.0 was initially only released for Mac OS and Mac OS
X on April 14, 2001, and version 5.0.1 followed shortly thereafter on April 23, 2001, supporting Mac OS,
Mac OS X, and Windows.[18] Three more updates to QuickTime 5 (versions 5.0.2, 5.0.4, and 5.0.5) were
released over its short lifespan.

QuickTime 5 delivered the following enhancements:[19]

• MPEG-1 playback for Windows, and updated MPEG-1 Layer 3 audio support for all systems.
• Sorenson Video 3 (based on H.264) playback and export (added with the 5.0.2 update).
• Realtime rendering of effects & transitions in DV files, including enhancements to DV rendering,
multiprocessor support, and Altivec enhancements for PowerPC G4 systems.
• Flash 4 playback and export.
• A new QuickTime VR engine, adding support for cubic VR panoramas.

[edit] QuickTime 6.x

On July 15, 2002, Apple released QuickTime 6.0, providing the following features:[20]

• MPEG-4 playback, import, and export, including MPEG-4 Part 2 video and AAC Audio.
• Support for Flash 5, JPEG 2000, and improved Exif handling
• Instant-on streaming playback
• MPEG-2 playback (via the purchase of Apple's MPEG-2 Playback Component)
• Scriptable ActiveX control

QuickTime 6 was initially available for Mac OS 8.6 - 9.x, Mac OS X (10.1.5 minimum), and Windows 98,
Me, 2000, and XP. However, development of QuickTime 6 for Mac OS slowed considerably in early 2003,
after the release of Mac OS X v10.2 in August 2002. QuickTime 6 for Mac OS continued on the 6.0.x path,
eventually stopping with version 6.0.3.[21]

QuickTime 6.1 & 6.1.1 for Mac OS X v10.1 and Mac OS X v10.2 (released October 22, 2002)[22] and
QuickTime 6.1 for Windows (released March 31, 2003)[23] offered ISO-Compliant MPEG-4 file creation
and fixed the CAN-2003-0168 vulnerability.

Apple released QuickTime 6.2 exclusively for Mac OS X on April 29, 2003 to provide support for iTunes
4, which allowed AAC encoding for songs in the iTunes library.[24] (iTunes was not available for Windows
until October 2003.)

On June 3, 2003, Apple released QuickTime 6.3, delivering the following:[25]

• Support for 3GPP, including 3G Text, video, and audio (AAC and AMR codecs)
• Support for the .3gp, .amr, and .sdv file formats via separate component

QuickTime 6.4, released on October 16, 2003 for Mac OS X v10.2, Mac OS X v10.3, and Windows, added
the following:[26]

• Addition of the Apple Pixlet codec (only for Mac OS X v10.3 and later)
• ColorSync support
• Integrated 3GPP

On December 18, 2003, Apple released QuickTime 6.5, supporting the same systems as version 6.4.
Versions 6.5.1 and 6.5.2 followed on April 28, 2004 and October 27, 2004. These versions would be the
last to support Windows 98 and Me. The 6.5 family added the following features:[27]

• 3GPP2 and AMC mobile multimedia formats

• QCELP voice code
• Apple Lossless (in version 6.5.1)

QuickTime 6.5.3 was released on October 12, 2005 for Mac OS X v10.2.8 after the release of QuickTime
7.0, fixing a number of security issues.

[edit] QuickTime 7.x

QuickTime 7 represents one of the largest architectural changes to the QuickTime lineage since its first
version.[citation needed] Initially released on April 29, 2005 in conjunction with Mac OS X v10.4 (for version
10.3.9 and 10.4.x), QuickTime 7.0 featured the following:[28][29]

• Improved MPEG-4 compliance

 • H.264/MPEG-4 AVC codec
• Core Graphics (Quartz) for screen drawing, allowing for live resizing and playback on an OpenGL
surface
• Core Audio replacing Sound Manager, supporting high resolution sound[30]
• Support for using Core Image filters in Mac OS X v10.4 on live video, also known as Core Video
• Support for Quartz Composer (.qtz) animations
• Support for distinct decode order and display order
• The QTKit, a Cocoa framework for QuickTime

After a couple of preview Windows releases,[31] Apple released 7.0.2 as the first stable release on September
7, 2005 for Windows 2000 and Windows XP. Version 7.0.4, released on January 10, 2006 was the first
universal binary version. But it suffered numerous bugs, including a buffer overrun, which is more
problematic to most users.

Apple dropped support for Windows 2000 with the release of QuickTime 7.2 on July 11, 2007.[32] The last
version available for Windows 2000, 7.1.6, contains numerous security vulnerabilities.[33] Apple has not
indicated that they will be providing any further security updates for older versions. QuickTime 7.2 is the
first version for Windows Vista.

Apple dropped support for Flash content in QuickTime 7.3, breaking content that relied on Flash for
interactivity, or animation tracks. Security concerns seem to be part of the decision.[34]

In QuickTime 7.3, a processor that supports SSE is required. QuickTime 7.4 does not require SSE. Unlike
versions 7.2 and 7.3, QuickTime 7.4 refuses to be installed on Windows XP SP1 system (its setup program
checks if Service Pack 2 is installed). QuickTime 7.5 was released on June 10, 2008.

[edit] QuickTime X

QuickTime X (pronounced Quicktime Ten[35]) is the next version of QuickTime. It was announced at
WWDC on June 9, 2008. It will ship with Mac OS X v10.6 in mid-2009.[36] It will be built upon media
technology first used in iPhone OS and will have support for modern codecs and more efficient media
playback.[37]

[edit] Creating software that uses QuickTime

QuickTime consists of two major subsystems: the Movie Toolbox and the Image Compression Manager.
The Movie Toolbox consists of a general API for handling time-based data, while the Image Compression
Manager provides services for dealing with compressed raster data as produced by video and photo codecs.

Developers can use the QuickTime software development kit (SDK) to develop multimedia applications for
Mac or Windows with the C programming language or with the Java programming language (see
QuickTime for Java), or, under Windows, using COM/ActiveX from a language supporting this.

The COM/ActiveX option was introduced as part of QuickTime 7 for Windows and is intended for
programmers who want to build standalone Windows applications using high-level QuickTime movie
playback and control with some import, export, and editing capabilities. This is considerably easier than
mastering the original QuickTime C++ API.[38]

QuickTime 7 for Mac introduced the QuickTime Kit (aka QTKit), a developer framework that is intended
to replace previous APIs for Cocoa developers. This framework is for Mac only, and exists as Objective-C
abstractions around a subset of the C interface. Mac OS X v10.5 extends QTKit to full 64-bit support.
[edit] Criticisms

QuickTime 7.4 was found to disable Adobe's video compositing program, After Effects.[39] This was due to
the DRM built into version 7.4 since it allowed movie rentals from iTunes. QuickTime 7.4.1 resolved this
issue.[40]

QuickTime is also often criticized for it sluggish performance in both encoding and decoding video as
compared to alternate media players and encoders. Also the Quicktime implementation of H.264 is
considered inferior in specification to competitive implementations like x264 and Nero Digital. Due to
these limitations, not only do the same videos encoded with QuickTime have to be assigned a greater bit-
rate to keep the quality level compared to other mainstream H.264 codecs, but several advanced features of
other codecs have to be switched off when encoding to make output files compatible with QuickTime.[citation
needed]

[edit] Vulnerabilities

Versions 4.0 through 7.3 contained a buffer overflow bug which could compromise the security of a PC
using either the QuickTime Streaming Media client, or the QuickTime player itself.[41] The bug was fixed in
version 7.3.1.

[edit] See also

• Comparison of media players

• List of media players
• QuickTime Alternative
• QT Lite

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[edit] External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to:

QuickTime

• Official QuickTime site with Download page, older versions, and additional components to extend
QuickTime's capabilities
• QuickTime content
• Apple's QuickTime developer site
• From Alice to Ocean (first creative project demonstrating QuickTime 1.0)
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