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QuickTime’s Developers Reflect on Doing Digital Video in Software
- charlysl 9y agoMy fav quotes in the article: Multimedia then was like the Internet of Things is today. It is different things to different people; there is no standard, but someday it will all work together and it will be great. The fact that you could record live video—maybe not at full frame rate—directly to disk, and you could record continuously, was unheard of it was Apple’s first software available as a separate package, not built into the operating system QuickTime was barely a twinkle in the developers’ eyes when it was announced as a product Apple’s first Windows product. every device out there now plays MP4 files based on the [MPEG] standardized the file format we created back in 1990 or 1991. Digital video would have happened [without us]. But the character of it, that it’s not professionals creating it and everybody else consuming it—those ideas, that had an impact