QuickTime 1.0 on 25 Published in June 1990, initially only for the Macintosh platform. This rang Apple introduced the multimedia era. In a size of 156 × 116 pixels were now digital videos without any additional external hardware to play. The frame rate was then about 10 frames per second. This was a significant advance, since then, many Apple users have with monochrome screens were working. The triumph of QuickTime was performed with the rapid proliferation of CD-ROM and at the same time was the reason for their success: it could be published thanks to QuickTime multimedia and cross-platform video content.
Up to the third version was QuickTime for IRIX (SGI) and Solaris (Sun Microsystems) developed, but after that set. Since then, members of the open source community, various attempts (QuickTime 4 Linux, open QuickTime, OpenQTJ, etc.) made to the QuickTime framework to include Linux porting. The International Organization for Standardization decided in 1998, as part of their search for a flexible and open file format as the basis for the file format of MPEG-4, for the QuickTime format. QuickTime is often used for streaming audio and video to the Internet use. The spreading rate is about 21 million downloads per month, and so far have been counted more than 2.5 billion downloads.
Up to the third version was QuickTime for IRIX (SGI) and Solaris (Sun Microsystems) developed, but after that set. Since then, members of the open source community, various attempts (QuickTime 4 Linux, open QuickTime, OpenQTJ, etc.) made to the QuickTime framework to include Linux porting. The International Organization for Standardization decided in 1998, as part of their search for a flexible and open file format as the basis for the file format of MPEG-4, for the QuickTime format. QuickTime is often used for streaming audio and video to the Internet use. The spreading rate is about 21 million downloads per month, and so far have been counted more than 2.5 billion downloads.
