[M4IF Discuss] Dispute won't clock QuickTime 6 -- ZDNET

[Craig Birkmaier]

At 9:40 PM -0400 5/7/02, Daniel B. Miller wrote:
>hmm...
>
>"very hopeful" is the kind of language you hear from negotiators who know
>there is no hope of a solution anytime soon.
>

Apple must continue to evolve QuickTime, with or without MPEG-4. 
Because of the modular architecture of Quicktime, this involve 
nothing more than pulling the MPEG-4 codec from the QuickTime 6 
release. Apple did exactly this with MPEG-2 support, which was ready 
as an update for version 4.0 and announced - but not released - for 
version 5.0 of QuickTime.
As Bill Fulco noted, the marketplace will respond to any real 
opportunities. QuickTime has offered many of the object based coding 
and composition techniques incorporated in MPEG-4 for years; this is 
one of the reasons that the QuickTime File Format was well matched to 
the requirements for the MP4 file format.
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Regards
Craig Birkmaier
Pcube Labs