• Major Release

• Using Gestalt to Get the QuickTime Version

• Resources and Other Documentation

• Summary of Changes and Enhancements

• Enhancements

• Changes to the Installer

• Support for New Formats

• Other New Features

• Version Differences

• QuickTime Player Changes

• QuickTime VR Controls

• New Player Application Capabilities

• Media Skins

• Creating Media Skins

• Current Limitations

• Adding Media Skins Using the QuickTime API

• Adding Custom Media Skins with AppleScript

• Media Skin Droplet

• Creating the Media Skin Image Files

• Transparent Overlay Media Skins

• Setting the Script Preferences

• Running the Script

• Completed Examples

• Digital Video (DV) Codec Optimizations

• High-Quality Decompression

• Improved Compression Quality and Performance

• Improved Low-Quality Vector Decode

• Addition of Multiprocessor Support

• Real-Time Effects Support

• New Latency APIs

• Overview

• Usage

• Applications

• Video Codecs

• Sound Output Components

• Video Codec Latency API

• ImageCodecGetDecompressLatency

• Sound Output Latency API

• Multiprocessor (MP) Support

• Enabling Asynchronous MP Decompression Using the Base Decompressor

• Taking Advantage of Asynchronous MP Codecs in Your Application

• SCCompressSequenceFrame

• SCCompressSequenceFrameAsync

• SCAsyncIdle

• New MP-Related Image Compression Manager APIs

• QuickTime VR Authoring Components Added

• The QTVR Flattener

• Presenting Users with the QTVR Flattener Dialog Box

• Communicating Directly with the Component

• Sample Atom Container for the QTVR Flattener

• The QTVR Multinode Splitter

• Advantages of a Multinode Movie

• Usage of the QTVR Splitter

• Displaying Movies in Web Pages

• QuickTime VR Object Movie Compressor

• A New Installer for Downloading Third-Party Components

• General Submission Requirements for Third-Party Components

• How to Package QuickTime Components on Mac OS X

• How and Where Your Component Gets Installed

• Localized and Non-Localized Resources

• Recommended Procedures

• AppleScript Changes and Additions

• Additional Commands

• Application Class Changes

• Favorite Class Changes

• Movie Class Changes

• Track Class Changes

• Additional Classes

• Class chapter: A reference to a chapter in a QuickTime™ movie

• Class stream: A stream within a streaming track

• Class display: A display device

• Class frame: A reference to a frame (sample) in a QuickTime movie track

• Class text frame: A reference to a text frame in a QuickTime text track

• Export Event Changes

• Other Changes

• MPEG 1 Playback

• Flash 4

• New Wired Actions and Operands

• kActionFlashTrackSetFlashVariable

• kActionFlashTrackDoButtonActions

• kOperandFlashTrackVariable

• QT Events

• Importing a Flash Movie

• QuickTime Music Architecture (QTMA)

• Improved QuickTime Music Synthesizer

• New Reverb to Improve Sound Quality

• Updated Music Control Panel

• Other Improvements

• Some Limitations of Sound Font 2 and DLS Files

• Assigning Custom Sound Banks to Movies

• New QuickTime VR Cubic Engine

• Panorama Flags Superseded by the panoType Field

• Panorama Image Track

• Changes to Cylindrical Panoramas

• New Cubic Panorama

• Image Tracks in Cubic Nodes

• Panorama Tracks in Cubic Nodes

• Nonstandard Cubes

• Gamma Processing APIs

• Usage

• PixMap APIs

• QTGetPixMapPtrGammaLevel

• QTSetPixMapPtrGammaLevel

• QTGetPixMapHandleGammaLevel

• QTSetPixMapHandleGammaLevel

• QTGetPixMapPtrRequestedGammaLevel

• QTSetPixMapPtrRequestedGammaLevel

• QTGetPixMapHandleRequestedGammaLevel

• QTSetPixMapHandleRequestedGammaLevel

• Codec APIs

• ImageCodecRequestGammaLevel

• ImageCodecGetSourceDataGammaLevel

• Default Gamma of Custom Pixel Formats

• Preferred Codec APIs

• MediaSetUserPreferredCodecs

• MediaGetUserPreferredCodecs

• Media Sharing Support

• AddClonedTrackToMovie

• How To Find All Clone Tracks in a Movie

• Notes and Issues

• New APIs

• SetMovieVideoOutput

• New Media Handler API

• MediaEmptySampleCache

• New ‘vdig’ Flag Added

• New Data Handler APIs

• DataHGetFileTypeOrdering

• GetMovieImporterForDataRef (Updated)

• DataHGetMIMETypeAsync

• QTGetMIMETypeInfo

• Pointer Data Handler

• New Load State Defined

• Autoplay and the Movie Toolbox

• New Media Type Supported

• Encoding GSM Audio

• API to Determine Whether QuickTime Can Open a File

• CanQuickTimeOpenFile

• CanQuickTimeOpenDataRef

• New Plugin Features

• New Embed Tag Parameters

• New URL Extensions

• SaveEmbedTags

• AllowEmbedTagOverrides

• New Debug Tool Added to Plugin

• New QTML function

• QTGetAliasInfo

• QuickTime for Java

• Idling Mechanism Re-Worked

• Support for New Services

• QTDrawing Listener and Notification Services

• SMIL Changes

• New SMIL Attributes

• Support for “qt:preroll”

• Support for begin-clip and end-clip

• Support for "qt:fullscreen"

• URLs Used with “qt: next” Attribute

• URL Resolution

• Enhancements to Effects

• Streaming Client

• Broadcasting APIs

• Wired Actions

• New Wired Actions

• General Wired Actions

• Send App Message

• Flash Wired Actions

• Text Wired Actions

• QTLists

• Track Wired Actions

• QTVR Wired Actions

• New Wired Operands

• General

• Movie Property

• Track Property

• Sprite Track

• Text

• QTLists

• Math

• Flash

• General

• Keyboard Focus

• XML Import

• New QuickTime Media Links XML Importer

• Supported Attributes and Values

• XML Event-Based Parsing