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Apple Releases QuickTime 7.6

Wednesday January 21, 2009 10:28 am PST by Eric Slivka
Apple today released QuickTime 7.6, which includes a number of performance, compatibility, and security updates. According to the support document for the release, the update includes the following changes:

Video:
- Improves single-pass H.264 encoding quality
- Increases the playback reliability of Motion JPEG media

Audio:
- Improves AAC encoding fidelity
- Audio tracks from MPEG video files now export consistently

Application Support:
- Improves compatibility with iChat and Photo Booth

The update, which weighs in at 72.3 MB and requires OS X 10.4.10 or later and a 400 MHz G3 processor or later, also includes a number of security fixes.
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noone
40 months ago
Downloading now. Hopefully all goes well. Bug fixes and improvements are always welcome in my book.
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Kilamite
40 months ago
Hopefully it won't be so sluggish when loading now.

Interesting about the H.264 video encoding - hopefully my EyeTV exports will be not as blocky/faded.
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Blue Velvet
40 months ago

- Improves AAC encoding fidelity


Say what? I can imagine millions of people now cursing at their lovingly-ripped libraries.
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Eidorian
40 months ago
So how about GPU decoding?
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amac4me
40 months ago
Installed ... no issues on my MBP or PowerMac G5.
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themoonisdown09
40 months ago


- Improves AAC encoding fidelity


Say what? I can imagine millions of people now cursing at their lovingly-ripped libraries.


I'm guessing this doesn't pertain to Apple Lossless files because that's what I'm currently ripping my entire CD library with.
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miiles
40 months ago
75.1 MB on iMac 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
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Blue Velvet
40 months ago

I'm guessing this doesn't pertain to Apple Lossless files because that's what I'm currently ripping my entire CD library with.



No, it's AAC and I'm curious to know more, especially if Apple screwed something up in the past. Wonder if they'll comment on this over at HydrogenAudio at some point soon?

Apple: so incredibly infuriating with releasing useful information that may potentially cast them in a bad light.
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ltldrummerboy
40 months ago
Anyone know if this adds GPU decoding?
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nagromme
40 months ago

No, it's AAC and I'm curious to know more, especially if Apple screwed something up in the past. Wonder if they'll comment on this over at HydrogenAudio at some point soon?

Apple: so incredibly infuriating with releasing useful information that may potentially cast them in a bad light.


I'm curious too. "Improvement" could mean fixing a past audio screw-up (albeit one people may never have managed to hear) or it could mean that software and encoding techniques improve, and Apple is bringing us the latest (which, again, we may not be able to hear).

I'd be interested in some blind listening tests--which I'm sure someone is bound to do soon!

Luckily, I had not yet begun re-ripping my CDs at 256 :)
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