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Quicktime is Apple Computer's multimedia authoring and playback software, compatible with Windows 95-8, Windows NT, and the Macintosh OS. It provides the ability to play back various kinds media from within a variety of programs, including web browsers. Among the media types Quicktime can play are video, audio, still graphics, MIDI, and text.
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Quicktime is a multimedia development, storage, and playback technology from Apple. Quicktime files combine sound, text, animation, and video in a single file. Using a Quicktime player that either comes with a Web browser or can be downloaded from Apple or the browser company, you can view and control brief multimedia sequences.
For the people that have the bundled version of Quicktime (with iTunes), you have to download the whole package again. It takes some liberties that you normally don’t want it to take (startup wise). It’s filled with ads that boot you directly to their website. When talking about QuickTime files though, they typically lack the quality of .MPEG files.
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The Quicktime Player for Windows makes it possible to view and listen to many different types of media, including audio and video "embedded" in web pages. Firefox and other Mozilla browser users often ask why they are told that additional plugins are needed for content that Quicktime can handle, when the Quicktime Player is already installed. In most cases, it's just a matter of enabling the Quicktime browser plugin for a particular MIME type
In each example, the Quicktime sound is loaded into a separate frame on the page. By using frames in this manner, only the frame containing the Quicktime material need change when a new sound is played, leaving the rest of the information on the page untouched.
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The Quicktime movie contains a sequence of text graphics synchronized to an audio excerpt from "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" in Middle English. Graphics are used so that students don't have to install a special Middle English typeface to read the text. The bottom half of the frame contains a Modern English translation of the text; this material is not created or stored as graphics but as a Quicktime text track, which can be created with a simple word processor.
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