QuickTime

QuickTime is an extensible proprietary multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc., capable of handling various formats of digital video, picture, sound, panoramic images, and interactivity. The classic version of QuickTime is available for Windows XP and later, as well as Mac OS X Leopard and later operating systems. A more recent version, QuickTime X (10.0) is currently available on Mac OS X Snow Leopard and Mac OS X Lion.

QuickTime X

QuickTime X includes visual chapters, conversion, sharing to YouTube and MobileMe, video editing, capture of video and audio streams, screen recording, GPU acceleration, and live streaming.

In addition, a screen recorder is featured which records whatever is on the screen. However, to prevent bootlegging the user is unable to record any video that is played on the DVD Player or purchased content from iTunes, thus being greyed out

QuickTime is integrated with Mac OS X, but was once an optional component during installation for earlier versions of Mac OS. QuickTime for Microsoft Windows is downloadable, either as a standalone installation or bundled with iTunes or optionally with Safari.

Formats

Audio Apple Lossless 1 y 2 Audio Interchange (AIFF) Digital Audio: Audio CD MIDI MPEG-1 Layer 3 Audio (.mp3) MPEG-4 AAC Audio (.m4a, .m4b, .m4p) QDesign Music Qualcomm PureVoice (QCELP) Sun AU Audio ULAW/ALAW Audio WAV AAC (Advanced Audio Coding)

Video 3GPP & 3GPP2 Video AVI DV video (DV NTSC/PAL and DVC Pro NTSC/PAL codecs) Flash & FlashPix (animaciones web) GIF and GIF animados H.261, H.263, y H.264 codecs JPEG, Photo JPEG, yJPEG-2000 codecs MPEG-1, MPEG-2, y MPEG-4 Quartz Composer Composition (solo Mac OS X) QuickTime Movie (.mov) Video mac: Apple Video, Cinepak, Component Video, Graphics, and Planar RGB