Quicktime 6.3 released

Apple today announced the availability of QuickTime 6.3, which the company says is the "industry's first mainstream solution to support the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) standard and to deliver a foundation for the creation, delivery and playback of rich multimedia content over wireless networks."

QuickTime 6 has surpassed 100 million downloads in less than 10 months and with version 6.3 enables users will now be able to share high-quality video, audio and text on a new generation of wireless devices including cell phones and PDAs.

QuickTime 6.3 offers support for the 3GPP standard, including Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) and Adaptive Multi-Rate (AMR) audio, MPEG-4 and H.263 video, 3G Text (TX3G) and native .3gp file format support.

Additional QuickTime 6.3 features include automatic streaming transport detection for a more reliable streaming experience, improvements to DV audio and video synchronization and enhanced support for Apple's Keynote, iMovie and iDVD applications.

News source: MacMinute