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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 Carbon, Cocoa, Core Foundation, Darwin, Games, Hardware & Drivers, Internet & Web, Java, Mac OS X Server, Networking, Printing, QuickTime, Security
2008-05-19 Creating Apple TV Media Files Containing Dolby Digital Professional AC-3 Audio (HTML)
Editorial
 Minor Change QuickTime
2008-05-19 QTKit Capture - Disabling Audio Or Video When Capturing From a Muxed Device (HTML)
First Version
 First Version Cocoa, QuickTime
2008-04-24 How can I find out what non-RGB pixel formats a codec supports? (HTML) (日本語 HTML)
Editorial
 Minor Change QuickTime
2008-04-24 Using QTPixelBufferContextCreate with NewMovieFromProperties (HTML)
Editorial
 Minor Change Carbon, Cocoa, Graphics & Imaging, QuickTime
2008-04-14 Determining console user login status (HTML)
A complete rewrite to account for fast user switching, and to simplify the code.
 Minor Change Carbon, Cocoa, Darwin
2008-03-27 How to get a native QuickTime movie object from the QuickTime ActiveX/COM control (HTML)
First Version
 First Version QuickTime
2008-03-25 Bonjour Printer Subtype for HTTP (HTML)
Restructured the document to clarify possible ambiguities.
 Minor Change Apple Applications, Carbon, Cocoa, Core Foundation, Darwin, Enterprise IT, Networking, Open Source, Printing
2008-03-25 Drawing attributed strings that are both filled and stroked (HTML)
First Version
 First Version Cocoa, Text & Fonts
2008-03-25 Supported KPIs (HTML)
First Version
 First Version Darwin
2008-03-17 QTKit Capture - Extracting SMPTE Timecode information from a QTSampleBuffer (HTML)
First Version
 First Version Cocoa, QuickTime
2008-03-17 Sample Description Endianness (HTML)
First Version
 First Version QuickTime
2008-03-11 How to work around HIMovieViewCreate failing (HTML)
Editorial
 Minor Change Carbon, QuickTime, Tools
2008-03-11 Movie Import Components - MovieImportDataRef Invoked For File Import Operations (HTML)
First Version
 First Version QuickTime
2008-03-11 QTKit Capture - Specifying Media Compression Settings (HTML)
Editorial
 Minor Change Graphics & Imaging, QuickTime
2008-03-11 Suppressing the "unexpectedly quit" alert (HTML)
Updated content for Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5. Fixed a typographical error. "~Library/Preferences/com.apple.CrashReporter.plist" should be "~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.CrashReporter.plist."
 Minor Change Carbon, Cocoa, Darwin