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Unofficial Mac Genius
I watched the Quicktime Live! keynote, and Apple demoed Quicktime 6! They said they had a working preview, but could not deliver it because of licensing concerns; QT6 has MPEG2 playback built-in (!), as well as MPEG4 decoding and encoding. There was also a new version of QT Streaming Server (version 4) demoed, and is available today. Also, a new application, called QuickTime broadcaster (not sure exactly what it does because I got cut off of the broadcast) which is going to be free, but also delayed because of licensing issues.
Here's the problem. Apple said that this is what is proposed for licensing:
$0.25 for each decoder, $1 million cap per year
$0.25 for each enconder, $1 million cap per year
$0.02 for each hour of content, to be paid by the content distributor (from what I understand)
Obviously it is this last thing that is affecting the deployment -- Phil Schiller said that Apple would be more than happy to pay $2 million a year to release QuickTime 6.
So send an e-mail to licensing@mpegla.com to voice your concern over MPEG4 licensing issues, and help Apple release QT6!
Here's the problem. Apple said that this is what is proposed for licensing:
$0.25 for each decoder, $1 million cap per year
$0.25 for each enconder, $1 million cap per year
$0.02 for each hour of content, to be paid by the content distributor (from what I understand)
Obviously it is this last thing that is affecting the deployment -- Phil Schiller said that Apple would be more than happy to pay $2 million a year to release QuickTime 6.
So send an e-mail to licensing@mpegla.com to voice your concern over MPEG4 licensing issues, and help Apple release QT6!