What's New
QuickTime 3 contains many features that are new or improved from earlier releases.
This section gives you a brief overview of them.
New Features Documented in This Seed Draft
This preliminary version of the QuickTime 3 Reference includes information about the following new
features:
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Support for access keys, which control access to encrypted data.
For an introduction to this feature,
see "Support for Access Keys."
For more details, see "New Features of the Movie Toolbox."
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Support for compressed movie resources. For an introduction to this feature,
see "Compressed Movie Resources."
For information about the storage format for compressed movie resources,
see "Compressed Movie File Format."
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Support for DV video. Compressor and decompressor components for DV video are described in
"New Image Compressor Components."
Data exchange components for DV video are described in
"DV Video Import and Export Components."
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The ability to specify the size of the image buffer for image compressor or decompressor
components. For a description of this feature,
see "Specifying the Size of an Image Buffer."
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The ability to store captured data in multiple files. For an introduction to this feature,
with examples,
see "Storing Captured Data in Multiple Files,"and "Capturing to Multiple Files."
For the function definitions, see Functions.
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The ability to export data from sources other than movies. For an introduction to this feature,
see "Exporting Data from Sources Other Than Movies."
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Simpler implementation of movie data export components. For an introduction to this feature, see
"Implementing Movie Data Export Components."
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Uniform resource locators (URLs) for sprites, which can be used with the QuickTime Sprite Export Xtra
for Macromedia Director when creating sprite movies. For documentation of this feature,
see "URLs for Sprites."
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Support for video output devices other than monitors. This feature is described in
"Video Output Components."
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The standard sound component dialog, which lets applications display a dialog for configuring their
sound settings and get the settings that the user provides, is described in
"Standard Sound Component."
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The base image decompressor, a component that performs tasks for image decompressor components,
including the scheduling of asynchronous decompression operations, is described in
"The Base Image Decompressor."
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Support for real-time video effects is described in
"QuickTime Video Effects."
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Support for progressive downloads. For an introduction to this feature,
see "Support for Progressive Downloads".
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Support for MIME types in graphics and movie import components.
For an introduction to MIME type support for movie import components,
see "Getting a List of Supported MIME Types."
For information about the structure of the MIME type list,
see "MIME Type List."For information about MIME type support for graphics import components,
see "Getting MIME Types."
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Support for aliases to components. For documentation of this feature,
see "Component Aliases."
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Functions that permit decompression at interrupt time. For the definition of these functions,
see "Compressing or Decompressing During Interrupt Time."
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Support for vector-based graphics. For documentation of these features, see
"QuickTime Vectors."
New Features Still to be Documented
Information about the following new features in version 3.0 is currently being prepared and will be provided in an upcoming seed document release:
