Technical Q&As
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2008-08-08 Adding metadata to a QuickTime movie using the QuickTime MetaData APIs (HTML)
Miscellaneous code fixes.
 Minor Change Movie Basics
2008-08-08 How to play a sequence of movies in a Web page (HTML)
First Version
 First Version Internet & Web
2008-08-08 QuickTime for Windows returns bdNamErr (-37) error with long Windows file names (HTML)
Updated to reflect new behavior in QuickTime 7.4.
 Minor Change Movie Basics, QuickTime for Windows
2008-08-08 Using QTPixelBufferContextCreate with NewMovieFromProperties (HTML)
Editorial
 Minor Change Carbon, Cocoa, Graphics & Imaging, Movie Basics
2008-08-08 Video capture with multiple IIDC cameras (HTML)
Updated for QTKit Capture.
 Minor Change Hardware & Drivers, Movie Creation
2008-08-06 Calculating the static video frame rate of a QuickTime movie. (HTML) (日本語 HTML)
Miscellaneous code changes.
 Minor Change Movie Basics
2008-06-03 Getting a Packet Trace (HTML) (日本語 HTML)
Streamlined product descriptions and reorganized the Miscellaneous notes. Restructured entire document and added additional packages. Added additional Hub/Switch information.
 Minor Change Internet & Web
2008-05-19 Creating Apple TV Media Files Containing Dolby Digital Professional AC-3 Audio (HTML)
Editorial
 Minor Change Movie Creation
2008-05-19 QTKit Capture - Disabling Audio Or Video When Capturing From a Muxed Device (HTML)
First Version
 First Version Cocoa, Movie Creation
2008-04-24 How can I find out what non-RGB pixel formats a codec supports? (HTML) (日本語 HTML)
Editorial
 Minor Change Compression & Decompression, QuickTime Component Creation
2008-03-27 How to get a native QuickTime movie object from the QuickTime ActiveX/COM control (HTML)
First Version
 First Version QuickTime for Windows
2008-03-17 QTKit Capture - Extracting SMPTE Timecode information from a QTSampleBuffer (HTML)
First Version
 First Version Cocoa
2008-03-17 Sample Description Endianness (HTML)
First Version
 First Version File Format Specification
2008-03-11 How to work around HIMovieViewCreate failing (HTML)
Editorial
 Minor Change Carbon
2008-03-11 Movie Import Components - MovieImportDataRef Invoked For File Import Operations (HTML)
First Version
 First Version Import & Export, QuickTime Component Creation
2008-03-11 QTKit Capture - Specifying Media Compression Settings (HTML)
Editorial
 Minor Change Cocoa, Movie Creation
2008-03-06 QTKit Capture - Setting DecompressedVideoOutput CVPixelBuffer Attributes (HTML)
Editorial
 Minor Change Cocoa
2008-01-15 QuickTime Media Optimization Properties (HTML)
First Version
 First Version Import & Export, Movie Basics, Movie Creation
2008-01-08 QuickTime Audio - Rendering QuickTime Movie audio to a specific Audio Device (HTML)
First Version
 First Version Audio