Title :
QuickTime: an extensible standard for digital multimedia
Author :
Hoffert, Eric ; Krueger, Mark ; Mighdoll, Lee ; Mills, Micheal ; Cohen, Johnathan ; Camplejohn, Doug ; Leak, Bruce ; Batson, Jim ; Van Brink, David ; Blackketter, Dean ; Arent, Michael ; Williams, Rich ; Thorman, Chris ; Yawitz, Mitch ; Doyle, Ken ; Calla
Author_Institution :
Apple Comput. Inc., Cupertino, CA, USA
Abstract :
QuickTime is an extensible standard for digital multimedia which establishes a foundation for the representation of time-based objects and file formats, still image and video compression techniques, human interface conventions, and application programming interfaces. All of these representations can stay the same as one moves towards an era of full-screen, full-motion digital video/high-resolution digital systems and as the underlying media technologies and compression schemes improve rapidly over time. QuickTime includes direct support in the operating system for audio/video synchronization and for still and moving image compression algorithms. Software-based video decompression is used as a means to permit dynamic media functionality in all color Macintosh computers. As a result, QuickTime brings dynamic media to a broad range of applications, including not only media authoring tools such as video editors and animation systems, but to mainstream tools such as word processors, databases, spreadsheets, and electronic mail.<>
Keywords :
Apple computers; audio-visual systems; data compression; data structures; microcomputer applications; multimedia systems; operating systems (computers); standards; QuickTime; animation systems; application programming interfaces; audio/video synchronization; color Macintosh computers; compression schemes; databases; digital multimedia; dynamic media functionality; electronic mail; extensible standard; file formats; full-motion digital video/high-resolution digital systems; human interface conventions; media authoring tools; moving image compression algorithms; operating system; spreadsheets; still image; time-based objects; underlying media technologies; video compression techniques; video editors; word processors; Application software; Containers; Desktop publishing; Image coding; Image databases; Image resolution; Motion pictures; Multimedia databases; Multimedia systems; Standards development;
Conference_Titel :
Compcon Spring '92. Thirty-Seventh IEEE Computer Society International Conference, Digest of Papers.
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-2655-0
DOI :
10.1109/CMPCON.1992.186680
