QuickTime is Apple's multiplatform, industry-standard, multimedia software architecture that provides significant development advantages on Mac OS X. Developers can take advantage of QTKit—QuickTime's modern object-oriented programming interface—to easily create QuickTime-savvy Cocoa-based Mac OS X applications. QuickTime enables you to capture, process, encode, playback, export and deliver video, audio, animation, graphics, text and music. And since QuickTime also provides file format converters for more than 250 common image, video, and audio file formats, you can support and convert new file formats within your application quickly and easily.

What's New in QuickTime

The What's New in QuickTime collection of documents describe new features and API changes introduced with each new version of QuickTime. Developers updating code written for an earlier version of QuickTime should make sure and read these documents to quickly gain familiarity with the latest API features and changes. The most recent document in this collection covers the new features and API changes introduced in the latest version of QuickTime and is the most up-to-date documentation available.
Technical Notes

The following technical notes present fundamental information for all QuickTime developers.