[MACALEX]

Anyone knows when Apple will release QuickTime 6? What the hell is going on with this divx licence and why QuickTime Stream Server available and QT 6 client not? I just don't get it, for now DIVX is still a problem for mac, because there is no software that smoothly works and easy to install.

[ 04-11-2002: Message edited by: MACALEX ]

[mitchell_pgh]

Get in line... Seriously, we are all waiting for QT6. Realistically it won't play all DivX movies that you nab off of the net. Only true MPEG-4 versions. I'm sure there will be a hack for most versions after a few months.

QT6 is ready to be released, but there is a licensing issue with MPEG-4. Apple and the MPEG-LA people aren't seeing eye to eye. I would consider the next Macworld (July) the most realistic date. There is a bunch more to QuickTime 6 then just MPEG-4/DivX... AAC will also be released. It's like MP3 quality sound, but higher compression rates at a lower bandwidth.

QT6 should have been released two months ago, but wasn't. So here we are, still waiting...

[MACALEX]

OK, but what was the point for Apple to release QT Strem Server that supports MPEG4 and having no client software yet. Tell me if I am wrong, but how could you watch streaming mpeg4 on the mac now?

[ckohler]

Originally posted by MACALEX:
<STRONG>what was the point for Apple to release QT Strem Server that supports MPEG4 and having no client software yet.</STRONG>

Easy... because the new QT streaming server includes various other improvements beyond just MPEG-4 streaming. Because the server doesn't actually encode any MPEG-4 data, it isn't bound by the MPEG-4 licensing issues and Apple can release it now instead of later.

[MACALEX]

Originally posted by ckohler:
<STRONG>

Easy... because the new QT streaming server includes various other improvements beyond just MPEG-4 streaming. Because the server doesn't actually encode any MPEG-4 data, it isn't bound by the MPEG-4 licensing issues and Apple can release it now instead of later.</STRONG>

OK! WHATEVER!

[OwlBoy]

Originally posted by MACALEX:
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OK! WHATEVER!</STRONG>

whadda yeah mean WHATEVER? hes VERY right.

-Owl

[RJLawrence]

With WWDC coming up at the end of the month and the CNET article from March 29 (yes Mitchell, I know it's a bit esoteric, but it seems promising to me) add the fact that Apple's technology was very prominent at NAB, I think we will see QT6 released in the next three to six weeks.

I really don't think they'll make us wait until this before we get our hands on it. Although in the broad scope of things, it's not something we must have, it's something we really, really want.

Also, Apple has proved their point and they have gotten a lot of positive buzz regarding their distaste for the licensing proposal. I think the MPEG - LA has reawakened as well. I expect a compromise where they will not impose any additional streaming fees for two - five years with a caveat that they will revisit the new licensing agreement sometime in the future.

CNET Article 3/29/02

[MACALEX]

Originally posted by RJLawrence:

Although in the broad scope of things, it's not something we must have, it's something we really, really want.


CNET Article 3/29/02[/QB]

I think MPEG4 is the main technology break through in video compression and unfortunatly Mac users can't enjoy that, I think Apple is too late with that already.

[lucylawless]

divx5 is mpeg4 compliant, and they say they have a mac encoder in development (I think they're lying), but 3ivx is also mpeg4 and cross-platform and has had a mac encoder for a year already. What I'd like to know is how divx.com is dealing with this liscencing issue

Divx and those others are based on MPEG4,yet are just hack on it i think