May
15
Apple Says Next QuickTime Due in Summer
Next
version to support Flash
by
David Nagel
Senior
Producer
Apple
says it will release the next version of QuickTime this summer. The company
says cross-platform support for MPEG-1 and MPEG-2, Flash 4 for Web animation
and an enhanced QuickTime VR playback. The new VR playback will include
unlimited spherical views of virtual-reality scenes.
In addition, the next QuickTime will feature more recent software from QDesign that has been optimized to take advantage of the Velocity Engine. This software, according to Apple, can encode music three times faster than previous versions. QDesign's Music Codec 2.1 received Velocity support back in early April.
In other QuickTime news, Apple announced today that QuickTime 4 has received more than 50 million downloads.
For more information, visit http://www.qdesign.com or http://www.apple.com.
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