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New Book: "Inside QuickTime: Interactive Movies"
"Inside QuickTime: Interactive Movies" is now available in HTML and PDF formats. This book guides content authors, webmasters, and tool developers in building, developing, and incorporating interactive QuickTime movies with wired sprites, sprite animations, and Flash content into their applications. [Nov 1 2002]

New Releases
iDVD 2.1 [Jan 31 2003]
QuickTime 6.1 [Jan 17 2003]
DVD Studio Pro 1.5.2 [Dec 13 2002]
Final Cut Pro 3.0.4 [Dec 13 2002]
QuickTime 6 MPEG-2 Playback [Nov 15 2002]

New QuickTime Documentation
QA1227 - Why does my identity matrix look strange? [Jan 17 2003]
QA1231 - Using QTSetAtomData [Jan 17 2003]
Inside QuickTime: Interactive Movies [Revised] [Nov 22 2002]
QuickTime API Reference [Revised] [Nov 22 2002]
Inside QuickTime: QuickTime VR [Revised] [Nov 22 2002]
New QuickTime Sample Code
Graphics 3D: GLUTStereo [Jan 10 2003]
Graphics 3D: TextureRange [Jan 10 2003]
Graphics 3D: aglClipBufferRect [Jan 10 2003]
QuickTime: Streaming: QTSPketizerReassem [Jan 10 2003]
DiscRecording: EnhancedDataBurn [Jan 10 2003]
View Selected WWDC 2002 Sessions for Free
Learn about the latest Mac OS X v10.2 development technologies including Rendezvous, Quartz Extreme, and QuickTime 6, with free access to six introductory sessions from this year's Worldwide Developers Conference:
  • Mac OS X: State of the Union
  • User Experience: Adopting Aqua
  • Introduction to Cocoa
  • Graphics & Imaging Overview
  • An Introduction to Building QuickTime Savvy App
  • Zero Configuration Networking
Free ADC Online membership registration is required. To view the sessions, log in to the ADC Member Site and select "WWDC 2002 Sampler" under the "View ADC TV" menu. [Sept 17 2002]
Technical Resources
QuickTime 6 Available
Apple Announces QuickTime 6. QuickTime 6 is now available as a free download from Apple for both Mac and Windows. QuickTime 6 is the industry's first mainstream MPEG-4 solution for streaming media to players. In addition, Apple announces the new QuickTime Broadcaster, which captures and encodes QuickTime content in MPEG-4 for live streaming over the web.

QuickTime 6 SDK for Macintosh and Windows platforms.

QuickTime 6.0 SDK contains a set of QuickTime headers used when building QuickTime savvy applications. These headers include definitions for the new APIs introduced in QuickTime 6.0.

The QuickTime 6 Macintosh SDK containes Interfaces for MacOS X 10.1.x. Interfaces and Libraries for MacOS 9 are available as a part of Universal Interface 3.4.2. MacOS X 10.2. comes with QuickTime 6 and the up-to-date Framework.

Windows developers can also use QuickTime within products via the QuickTime 6 Windows SDK. These QuickTime Interfaces and Libraries are required to build QuickTime savvy applications or QuickTime components. Also included in the QuickTime 6 Windows SDK are the tools to generate QuickTime resources for applications or QuickTime components.


What's New in QuickTime 6 (pdf)
This PDF document (240 pages) describes the new features of the QuickTime 6. It includes an overview of QuickTime's MPEG-4 capabilities; media support for Flash 5 and JPEG 2000; codec changes and enhancements; and new API functions. It also addresses installation issues, and a range of topics that are important for Web developers and content authors.
QuickTime Component Download Program
With the release of QuickTime 5 comes a new opportunity for developers to take advantage of the millions of QuickTime players in the world. Now you can create a component that Apple will host on its servers to give newly expanded features to QuickTime customers.
Mac OS X System Architecture
See how QuickTime relates to other technologies in the Mac OS X System Architecture diagram.
Mac OS X System Architecture

Mac OS X Getting Started

For those new to creating software for the Macintosh, this page provides directions to Apple's support services, documentation, tutorials, examples, tools, and business services.
Internet Explorer QuickTime Issue for Windows Users
Important information for Web Developers and Web Masters on the new ActiveX control that restores the QuickTime plug-in for Internet Explorer versions 5.5 SP2 and 6.0 (soon to be released) for Windows. To restore compatibility, QuickTime users should visit http://www.apple.com/quicktime/ to download and install the ActiveX control. Mac users and Netscape users are unaffected.
Introduction to QuickTime Tutorial
An online tutorial covering the basics of QuickTime Programming for the Macintosh and Windows. Complete with code samples and invaluable step by step guidance. Use this to jump start your QuickTime development.
QuickTime Development Resources
New to developing with QuickTime? You will find many useful links, cross-platform tools, resources and suggestions for starting points here.
QuickTime Developer Series
These books cover step-by-step tutorials to developing with QuickTime, QuickTime for Java and now QuickTime for the Web. All the books also include a CD-ROM with working applications, sample code, and essential programming resources.
Introduction to QuickTime for Java Programming Tutorial
An online tutorial covering the basics of programming using QuickTime for Java. Covers topics including displaying images, movies, playing sounds, and using custom controllers. Use this resource to get started using QuickTime for Java.
QuickTime Authoring
Interested in creating multimedia content? Look at the authoring section of the QuickTime site for more information.
Quickime-API Mailing List
This list is the place for discussions of developing using the QuickTime API, including tools, software, techniques, and hints.
QuickTime-Java Mailing List
This list is for the discussion of QuickTime for Java.
QuickTime-Talk Mailing List
This list is the place for discussions about the QuickTime technologies, including using QuickTime tools and creating content with QuickTime.
QuickTime-VR Mailing List
This mailing list is an informal means for developers interested in QTVR to share technical information.
QuickTime-Streaming-Server-Developers Mailing List
This list is for the discussion of QuickTime Streaming Server.
Business Resources
QuickTime Software Licensing and Logos
The artwork, licensing requirements, and guidelines for use of the QuickTime badge are available on the ADC Software Licensing website.

 




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