Apple has announced that a public beta of QuickTime 6 is now available. MPEG-4 support is there, as well as support for other technologies, such as JPEG2000, and Flash 5. The beta expires in October. An interesting in the FAQ's says that, '... because QuickTime 6 will include royalty-bearing technologies, a new QuickTime Pro key will be required to unlock pro functionality in the final release.'
<a href="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/preview/quicktime6/" target="_blank">http://www.apple.com</a>

<a href="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/preview/quicktime6/standalone/" target="_blank">standalone installer</a>

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial"> Welcome to QuickTime 6, featuring MPEG-4, the next-generation of the most advanced digital media technology on the Internet. This latest release of Apple’s cutting-edge digital media software for both Mac and Windows-based computers delivers unparalleled quality for creating, playing and streaming audio and video content over the Internet.
</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">it seems that QT6 will be using mpeg4 as its primary codec......
<a href="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/preview/mpeg4_gallery/" target="_blank">mpeg4_gallery </a>

im gonna test and tell u whats if its worth it

<small>[ 06-04-2002, 01:03 PM: Message edited by: tisoy ]</small>