• Using Gestalt to Get the QuickTime Version

• Documentation and Other Resources

• Bug Reporting

• Installing QuickTime 6

• Summary of Changes and Enhancements

• Enhancements

• Changes

• Updates

• For Web Developers

• Support for MPEG-4

• Background

• MPEG-1 and QuickTime

• MPEG-4 and QuickTime

• MPEG-4 File Format and QuickTime

• Inside the QuickTime File Format

• MPEG-4 Web Resources

• Acronyms and Terms for Understanding MPEG-4

• Acronyms and Terms Specific to MPEG-4

• Other Useful Terms

• Working with MPEG-4 Files

• How The Process Works

• New Dialogs for Handling MP4 Files

• New Video Codec for MPEG-4

• ISMA and Definitions of Profile 0

• Profiles and Levels Defined

• ISMA Profile 0

• ISMA Profile 1

• 3GPP (Third Generation Partnership Project)

• Gamma Correction

• Additional Dialog for MPEG-4 Video Compression

• Summary

• MPEG-4 Audio Support

• Defining AAC

• QuickTime AAC Encoder

• QuickTime AAC Decoder

• Native MPEG-4 Streaming

• MPEG-4 and Web Developers

• Ways To Use MPEG-4 In QuickTime

• Why Use MPEG-4 On The Web?

• Creating QuickTime Movies With MPEG-4 Compression

• Creating .mp4 Files

• Playing .mp4 Files in QuickTime

• Example: Playing .mp4 files over the Web

• ISO Compliance

• RTSP Instant-On Enhancement to Streaming

• User Interface Changes

• JPEG 2000 Support

• Flash 5 Support

• New Flash Media Handler

• Flash Movie Importer

• New Flash Properties Info Panel

• Controlling Mouse Capturing Setting

• New APIs for Tasking QuickTime

• QTGetTimeUntilNextTask

• QTInstallNextTaskNeededSoonerCallback

• QTUninstallNextTaskNeededSoonerCallback

• The Idle Manager APIs

• Derived Media Handlers

• MediaGGetIdleManager

• MediaGSetIdleManager

• What To Do Next

• Three Useful Idle Manager Calls

• QTIdleManagerSetNextIdleTimeNow

• QTIdleManagerSetNextIdleTimeNever

• QTIdleManagerSetNextIdleTimeDelta

• General Purpose Idle Manager API

• QTIdleManagerSetNextIdleTime

• Data Handlers

• DataHSetIdleManager

• What To Do Next

• Movie Importers

• MovieImportSetIdleManager

• New Carbon Movie Control

• Background

• How It Works––An Event Target

• Providing Time to Movies

• Support for Editing

• Interface

• CreateMovieControl

• Access to Underpinnings

• Sprite API Changes

• Loading Images into a Sprite Track

• New Sprite APIs

• SpriteMediaNewImage

• SpriteMediaDisposeImage

• SpriteMediaImageIndexToID

• SpriteMediaImageIDToIndex

• Sprite Hit-Testing Mode

• Controlling Hit-Testing Mode of an Individual Sprite

• Controlling Hit-Testing Mode of a Sprite Track

• Handling Mouse Clicks

• Sprite Track Setting Enhancements

• Limited Control of Offscreen Bit Depth

• New Preferred Bit Depth Info Panel

• Switching Between Modes

• A New Sprite Track Property

• Using the SpriteSetSpriteProperty API

• New Wired Actions and Operands

• New Sprite Actions

• New Sprite Operands

• New Wired Actions and Operands for Chapter Lists

• Going To a Chapter by Index

• Getting the Name and the Index of a Chapter

• New Wired Actions and Operands for Sprites and Sprite Tracks

• Sprite Hit Testing Property, Actions, and Operands

• Miscellaneous Wired Actions and Operands

• kQTEventKeyUp Event Type Added

• Random Seed

• QTVR Object Actions and Operands

• Additional New Actions and Operands

• VBR Sound Compression Support

• Background

• QuickTime 6 VBR Support

• Some Techniques For Compressing VBR Audio

• Using the Standard Sound Compression Component and VBR Compression

• Audio File Formats and VBR Compression

• Doing Something with VBR Audio Data

• New Tween Component API

• QTDoTweenPtr

• Changes to Effects Dialog

• Custom Effect Controls

• New Behavior Flag kCustomControl Added

• Using pdActionCustomNewControlControl to Create New Custom Controls

• Displaying Text Properly in Application Windows

• Using pdActionCustomHandleEvent To Process Events

• Using pdActionCustomSetFocus to Set or Advance Current Focus

• Using pdActionCustomSetEditMenu To Locate The Edit Menu

• Using pdActionCustomSetPreviewPicture To Preview Information

• Using pdActionCustomGetEnableValue to Enable or Disable Other Controls

• Using pdActionCustomSetSampleTime to Specify Duration and Start Time

• Using pdActionCustomDoEditCommand to Handle Edit Commands

• QuickTime Effects Classes

• Major Class

• Minor Class

• QuickTime Effects Presets

• Atom Contents

• Example Effect 'atms' Resource

• None Codec Enhancements

• Additional Still Image Metadata Support in Mac OS 9 and Windows

• Indexed Image Types

• Alpha Modes

• Extracted TIFF and Exif Metadata

• New APIs For Creating Exif Files

• GraphicsExportSetExifEnabled

• GraphicsExportGetExifEnabled

• GraphicsExportSetThumbnailEnabled

• GraphicsExportGetThumbnailEnabled

• Improved Movie Toolbox Support for Data Handlers

• Background

• Data Handlers and the New QuickTime APIs

• PutMovieIntoStorage

• CreateMovieStorage

• OpenMovieStorage

• CloseMovieStorage

• DeleteMovieStorage

• AddMovieToStorage

• UpdateMovieInStorage

• FlattenMovieDataToDataRef

• NewMovieFromStorageOffset

• ChooseMovieClock

• DataHGetInfo

• DataHDeleteFile

• DataHSetMovieUsageFlags

• OpenADataHandler Extended

• Advanced APIs

• PutMovieForDataRefIntoHandle

• NewMovieForDataRefFromHandle

• MovieImportSetNewMovieFlags

• New User Data APIs

• CopyMovieUserData

• CopyTrackUserData

• CopyMediaUserData

• CopyUserData

• QuickTime for Java Enhancements

• Support for JDK 1.4

• New JQTCanvas

• New QTVR Authoring Classes

• Improved QuickTime Client Streaming Support

• New Sprite Handler APIs

• AppleScript Changes

• Recordability

• Terminology Changes

• New Commands

• Enhanced Commands

• Command export

• Command make

• New Properties

• New Application Properties

• New Movie Properties

• New Track Properties

• New Classes

• Class matrix

• Properties

• Class Palette

• Properties

• Class rgb color

• Properties

• New Sequence Grabber User Interface

• New Sequence Grabber APIs

• Types

• SGSetSettingsSummary

• SGGetChannelRefCon

• SGGetChannelDeviceAndInputNames

• SGSetChannelDeviceInputNames

• SGSetChannelSettingsStateChanging

• SGPanelGetDITLForSize

• SGGrabCompressCompleteBottleProcPtr

• SGGrabCompressComplete

• VDCompressDone

• VDGetDeviceNameAndFlags

• VDCaptureStateChanging

• VDGetUniqueIDs

• VDSelectUniqueIDs

• New Image Compression APIs

• ImageCodecGetDITLForSize

• ImageCodecDITLInstall

• ImageCodecDITLEvent

• ImageCodecDITLItem

• ImageCodecDITLRemove

• ImageCodecDITLValidateInput

• New Image Decompression Manager APIs

• QTGetPixelFormatDepthForImageDescription

• GraphicsImportSetImageIndexToThumbnail

• ImageCodecMergeFloatingImageOntoWindow

• ImageCodecRemoveFloatingImage

• New Media Handler APIs For Keyboard Focus

• Adding Keyboard Focus Capabilities

• MediaHitTestForTargetRefCon

• MediaHitTestTargetRefCon

• MediaGetActionsForQTEvent

• MediaDisposeTargetRefCon

• MediaNavigateTargetRefCon

• Adding Keyboard Navigation and Editable Text Field Support

• MediaRefConSetProperty

• MediaRefConGetProperty

• New QuickTime Restrictions APIs

• QTGetMovieRestrictions

• QTGetSupportedRestrictions

• QTRestrictionsGetInfo

• QTRestrictionsGetItem

• QTCreateUUID

• QTEqualUUIDs

• New APIs For Controlling Memory Usage in Movies

• MediaSetChunkManagementFlags

• MediaGetChunkManagementFlags

• MediaSetPurgeableChunkMemoryAllowance

• MediaGetPurgeableChunkMemoryAllowance

• MediaEmptyAllPurgeableChunks

• Miscellaneous Changes and Enhancements

• Change For All Video Output Components

• QuickTime VR

• New QuickTime Menu in Windows

• New Movie Errors API

• New Movie Errors API

• MIDI Files Now Imported In Place

• Enabling High Quality on MPEG-4 Video Tracks

• QuickTime XML Importers

• SMIL Importer

• QuickTime Media Link Importer

• Component Preflight Importer

• Writing XML Importers

• New XML Exporter

• How It Works

• Media Link Exporter Settings

• Using the Media Link Exporter

• Default Settings

• MovieQTList Embed Tag Attribute

• SMIL Meta Tag Support in QuickTime

• JavaScript Support for ActiveX, Netscape 6 and Mozilla

• Playing Shoutcast or Icecast Streams in QuickTime

• Background

• Shoutcast and Icecast in QuickTime

• Opening Icecast or Shoutcast URLs

• Playing Icecast or Shoutcast Streams in QuickTime Player

• Playing Icecast or Shoutcast Streams in the QuickTime Browser Plug-in

• Playing Icecast or Shoutcast Streams Using the QuickTime API