Apple Releases QuickTime 7.7 Security Update for Mac OS X Leopard and Windows

Quick Time 7 was tossed into the Utilities folder when you updated to 10.6.

I did not update to 10.6, kid. My newest MBP (17", Early-2011) came already with 10.6.7. What now!? :D

Quick Time X replaced QT7.

No, QuickTime X in 10.6 uses still the old QT7 API, "under the hood". I know this, because i write QuickTime-based software.

AVFoundation is a new technology that first appeared in iOS and has just been included in OS X with the 10.7 release.

The AV Foundation framework appeared first in iMovie for iOS. Final Cut Pro X included it first on the desktop OS platform (one month before Lion). That is the reason why FCPX runs also on Snow Leopard (not just Lion).

They replaced it in OS X 10.7 (with AV Foundation), not 10.6.

Quick Time 7 was tossed into the Utilities folder when you updated to 10.6. Quick Time X replaced QT7.

AVFoundation is a new technology that first appeared in iOS and has just been included in OS X with the 10.7 release. Apple expects developers to use it instead of the older QT technology for new development.

I guess it's time for Apple to drop QuickTime for Windows as a separate product, fold it into iTunes and remove all extra features like QT Player, control panel and internet plugins. And especially get rid of the absurdity that is QuickTime Pro.

The thing about QT7 Pro, that QTX does not do is sequence of images into a movie, it very fast and efficient, that is why I still use QT 7 pro. Wish :apple: would of added the pro features to QT X

looks like a pretty big update security wise but, I'm guessing i've already got it for Lion then?

Quicktime 7 is absent from Lion unless you specifically download it.

They replaced it in OS X 10.7 (with AV Foundation), not 10.6.

That's not true. Quicktime 7 was replaced with Quicktime X in 10.6, although both are still supported in both 10.6 and 10.7. What you linked to is just a new framework.

It's nice to see that Apple still provides security updates for Leopard. A lot of people still use it, and Apple's recent decisions regarding backwards compatibility have bothered me a bit. (Rosetta's demise, as well as Xcode 4's inability to develop for anything before 10.6, and Apple's removal of Carbon tools from Xcode 3).

QuickTime X isn't on Windows?

looks like a pretty big update security wise but, I'm guessing i've already got it for Lion then?

While about a decade ago QuickTime tried to be the video standard of the web and competed against Windows Media and Real (remember Real? :D), it has lost to Flash long ago, and now HTML5 is the new contender. I haven't seen any website that uses QT (except apple.com) in the past five years. Windows 7 now even plays most .mov files natively. The only remaining reason to have QuickTime on your PC is to run iTunes.

They stopped updating QuickTime 7 with new features long ago, and continue pushing out updates just to fix security bugs, of which there are plenty (I'm serious – it's worse than Flash).

I guess it's time for Apple to drop QuickTime for Windows as a separate product, fold it into iTunes and remove all extra features like QT Player, control panel and internet plugins. And especially get rid of the absurdity that is QuickTime Pro.

I did not update to 10.6, kid. My newest MBP (17", Early-2011) came already with 10.6.7. What now!? :D

Download QuickTime 7 and install it. :)

Kid! Thanks for taking years off of my age. :D

No, QuickTime X in 10.6 uses still the old QT7 API, "under the hood". I know this, because i write QuickTime-based software.

Here is the problem with discussing QuickTime. Are we talking about the player or the underlying frameworks. I was leaning towards the player. I've assumed that QuickTime X used the underlying QuickTime frameworks. I wonder if apple updated in Lion to use the new AVFoundation?

The AV Foundation framework appeared first in iMovie for iOS. Final Cut Pro X included it first on the desktop OS platform (one month before Lion). That is the reason why FCPX runs also on Snow Leopard (not just Lion).

I'm not going to lookup the exact history of AVF. And yes, as I understand it, AVFoundation is part of the FCPX so appeared before the Lion release, but it wasn't available to app developers to release their software on it until Lion was release. Also the QuickTime framework is still in Lion. Apples recommendation, and the writing on the wall, is to use AVFoundation for new projects.

I installed this update and got some weird and annoying crashes. It installed, setup and rebooted fine. Then I tried running VLC and it repeatedly crashed (never happened before). I thought, "Oh great, Apple decided to deliberately screw VLC", but Firefox wouldn't start either. Even Quicktime itself crashed on starting. I got very worried. (a Quicktime update totally screwed my G4 10.2 setup years earlier.) I shut down and rebooted. Thankfully, everything seems fine now.

Maybe the update needed another reboot to finish or something.