OT: QuickTime 5.x? No, QT 6 with MPEG-4

[paulw]

Lots of folks were predicting that Apple Computer would release QuickTime 5.1 yesterday at the QuickTime Live! Conference in Beverly Hills, CA. They were wrong. Apple went straight to QuickTime 6 that features full support for MPEG-4, the emerging standard for streaming high quality content to computers and other digital devices.

See link for full story. Wonder what the benifits for us will be??

http://www.pcworld.co.nz/webhome.nsf...256B5F00020522!opendocument

[Dr Mordrid]

The benefits will be the ability to play fully ISO MPEG-4, of course. With the full version this will likely also mean full encoding capability with it as well.

This is the future guys. The powers that be are moving towards MPEG-4 and MPEG-7/21 for content discription. MPEG-2 will still be around as MPEG-4 can use it as a stream source, but it'll add a lot of functions MPEG-2 does not have.

Dr. Mordrid