Chapter 1 - Overview
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.
- movie playback (including the provision of basic time information and the interpretation of the data to be played)
- image capture
- compression and decompression of still images
- exchange of movie data
- creation and display of movie previews
Chapter Contents
- Providing Movie Playback
- Capturing Sequences of Images
- Compressing and Decompressing Still Images
- Converting Data for Use in QuickTime Movies
- Creating Previews of QuickTime Movies
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