QuickTime 3 Documentation
Each QuickTime component provides an interface to a general class of features associated with the manipulation of time-based data. QuickTime provides components so that developers may use a component--for example, one that provides image compression services--without extensive knowledge of all the possible services that that component might provide. Developers are therefore isolated from the details of implementing and managing a given technology.
Since each QuickTime component is registered by the Component Manager, the component's code can be available systemwide or in a resource that is local to a particular application.
QuickTime components supply these services:
This book addresses two audiences--developers who communicate directly with existing components and developers who want to create their own components.