[nerd]

Is there any word on Apple releasing Quicktime 7 for the PC along side with Tiger? I'm looking at doing some streaming content and would like to use H.264 and keep compatability with the PC.

Brad

[grovberg]

While not an answer to your question, I've heard that while being totally awesome, H.264 is pretty processor intensive on the encode and decode, so I haven't considered it a realistic streaming option since only those with pretty mighty machines can watch.

Have you found that to be the case? How have you been experimenting with this? Or am I jumping the gun and this is just a planning question? :-)

[Busemann]

That's just for high def content. H.264 is designed for low power devices like cell phones and works great for streaming.

QT 7 will be released for Windows & Panther around the release of Tiger, presumably

[nerd]

I hope it's released together. That would be nice.

I agree with the processor intensive thing but I haven't been able to play with released version of the h.264 codec on the Mac yet. On the PC it didn't seem to bad. I'm hoping because Apple is using it in iChat then they've optimized it a great deal.

Brad