What is QuickTime?

QuickTime is a multimedia architecture developed by Apple Computer for Mac OS, Mac OS X, Windows, and other platforms. It allows your computer to work with real-time movies, sounds, and high-quality compressed images.

QuickTime applications include the following:

• QuickTime Player for playing, interacting with, or viewing video, audio, virtual reality (VR), or graphics files
  
  
• QuickTime Pro for high-end media authoring
  
  
• QuickTime Streaming Server and Darwin Streaming Server for delivering media either in real time or on demand over the Internet with no per-stream license fee
  
  
• QuickTime Broadcaster which allows average users to produce a live broadcast event

All of these applications, except for QuickTime Pro, are free and available for download from Apple's QuickTime web site. For more information or to obtain these applications, visit the site at:

Also see:

• At IU, which STCs have QuickTime?
• In Mac OS or Mac OS X, how can I extract the sound from an audio CD track?
• For Mac OS and Mac OS X, what applications can I use to play, convert, or edit sound files?