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8/15/2000 -- Corrected the HTML documentation of the
new asynchronous movie loading feature added in QuickTime 4.1. Prior to the correction, the documentation
gave QuickTime Player's Open URL behavior as an example of an application using the asynchronous loading feature.
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7/13/2000 -- A new version of the QuickTime File Format is available in PDF format.
This is a major update and revision, including documentation of new QuickTime atom types and many new code samples.
This is the version of the QuickTime File Format which is incorporated in the MPEG4 specification.
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7/10/2000 -- There is now a website for information, updates, and corrections to books in
the QuickTime Developer series.
There are currently three books in the series:
- Discovering QuickTime, an introduction and overview for C programmers
- QuickTime for Java, a tutorial and reference for Java programmers
- QuickTime for the Web, a guide for movie and website authors
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6/8/2000 -- Added HTML documentation of the
new features added in QuickTime 4.1 (includes 4.1.1 and 4.1.2).
- 5/12/2000 -- Added PDF
documentation of the newly revised and updated QuickTime File Format
Specification 2000 (Preliminary).
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3/28/2000 -- Corrected an error in the
graphics exporter documentation that incorrectly
included the PICT exporter in a list of exporters that can store the image resolution setting.
The PICT exporter does not support this feature.
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2/7/2000 -- Added PDF documentation of the
QuickTime Streaming Server API, used for adding modules to the QTSS server.
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2/7/2000 -- Updated the PDF documentation of what's new in QuickTime 4.1.
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1/13/2000 -- QuickTime 4.1 released. For details, see
What's New in this Version.
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12/8/99 -- Corrected an error in
Connecting to the Base Image Decompressor.
The code sample now correctly shows that you pass a component instance to
OpenADefaultComponent.
Previously, the code sample incorrectly passed a component, rather than a component instance.
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10/19/99 -- Corrected an error in Wired Movies and Sprites. In the section
Naming a Movie, the text now correctly states
that you set a movie's name by adding a user data item of type 'plug' to the Movie's user data set to
"Moviename=MovieName"
where MovieName is the name of the Movie.
Previously, this section incorrectly stated that you should set Movieid=MovieName.
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10/13/99 -- Updated the PDF of Inside Macintosh: QuickTime Components
to improve readability and correct some formatting problems. No substantive changes were made.
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9/16/99 -- Corrected an error in the Graphics Exporter documentation.
The sample code presented the parameters to FindNextComponent in the wrong order.
Incorrect: c = FindNextComponent( &cd, c)
Correct: c = FindNextComponent( c, &cd)
(The PDF of the QuickTime 4 Reference has also been corrected.)
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7/16/99 -- New documentation posted for
All available in a single PDF: QuickTime Wired Movies and Sprite Animation.
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7/9/99 -- Updated the Graphics Importer and Graphics Exporter documentation.
This information is also available in a new PDF version of the QuickTime 4 Reference.
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7/6/99 -- Updated the PDF version of QuickTime for Windows Programmers to include the
changes made to the HTML documentation of NativePathNameToFSSpec, GetDIBFromPict, and GetPictFromDIB (see below).
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6/24/99 -- Corrected an error in the documentation of the Windows utility function
NativePathNameToFSSpec.
This function returns noErr even if the file does not yet exist, not fnfErr as previously stated.
Note that in QuickTime 4.0 this function did return fnfErr, as documented. This caused problems
with some existing code, so in QuickTime 4.01 this function once again returns noErr, as it
did in all earlier versions of QuickTime.
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6/22/99 -- Added the function definition for the new PrePrerollMovie function.
This is an addition to the description of pre-prerolling already in the Streaming documentation.
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6/22/99 -- Added a PDF of Making Cool QuickDraw 3D Applications!, by Brian Greenstone, Apple Computer, Inc.
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6/21/99 -- A correction to the Image Compression Manager documentation points out that the "Compact Video Compressor", also called the cinepak compressor,
has a compressor type of 'cvid', not 'cdvc'.
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6/10/99 -- A ninety-page introduction to QuickTime for Java is now available in HTML and PDF.
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6/8/99 -- QuickTime 4 released. This QuickTime 4 Documentation website replaces the QuickTime 3 Documentation website.
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5/25/99 -- The definitions of the Windows utility functions
GetDIBFromPict
and GetPictFromDIB have been updated.
The earlier definition did not make it clear that the function returns a Windows HANDLE, rather than a Mac OS handle.
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5/24/99 -- The QuickTime Streaming documentation has been updated, both in HTML and in PDF.
The Functions Index now includes the streaming functions.
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5/20/99 -- Discovering QuickTime, by George Towner / Apple Computer, is now available from Morgan Kaufman. This is an excellent introduction to and overview of QuickTime programming.
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5/11/99 -- QuickTime 4 public beta released.