Editing QuickTime (section)

=== QuickTime 6.x ===
On July 15, 2002, Apple released QuickTime 6.0, providing the following features:<ref>{{cite web|title=Apple&nbsp;– QuickTime 6&nbsp;– Summary of Changes and Enhancements |url=https://developer.apple.com/documentation/QuickTime/QT6WhatsNew/Chap1/chapter_1_section_6.html |access-date=January 8, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031105170543/http://developer.apple.com/documentation/quicktime/QT6WhatsNew/Chap1/chapter_1_section_6.html |archive-date=November 5, 2003 }}</ref>

* [[MPEG-4]] playback, import, and export, including [[MPEG-4 Part 2]] video and [[Advanced Audio Coding|AAC Audio]].
* Support for Flash 5, [[JPEG 2000]], and improved [[Exif]] handling.
* Instant-on streaming playback.
* MPEG-2 playback (via the purchase of Apple's MPEG-2 Playback Component).
* Scriptable [[ActiveX]] control.

QuickTime 6 was initially available for Mac OS 8.6&nbsp;– 9.x, Mac OS X (10.1.5 minimum), and Windows 98, Me, 2000, and XP. Development of QuickTime 6 for Mac OS slowed considerably in early 2003, after the release of [[Mac OS X v10.2]] in August 2002. QuickTime 6 for Mac OS continued on the 6.0.x path, eventually stopping with version 6.0.3.<ref>{{cite web | title=Apple&nbsp;– QuickTime 6.0.3 for Mac OS 8.6/9 | url=https://www.apple.com/support/downloads/quicktime603formac.html | access-date=January 4, 2007}}</ref>

QuickTime 6.1 & 6.1.1 for [[Mac OS X v10.1]] and Mac OS X v10.2 (released October 22, 2002)<ref>{{cite web | title=Apple&nbsp;– QuickTime: About the QuickTime 6.1.1 Update | url=http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61776 | access-date=January 8, 2007}}</ref> and QuickTime 6.1 for Windows (released March 31, 2003)<ref>{{cite web | title=Apple&nbsp;– QuickTime for Windows: About the QuickTime 6.1 Update | url=http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=42997 | access-date=January 8, 2007}}</ref> offered [[ISO standard|ISO]]-Compliant MPEG-4 file creation and fixed the [https://web.archive.org/web/20060323141000/http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2003-q1/0166.html CAN-2003-0168] vulnerability.

Apple released QuickTime 6.2 exclusively for Mac OS X on April 29, 2003, to provide support for iTunes 4, which allowed AAC encoding for songs in the iTunes library.<ref>{{cite web | title=Apple&nbsp;– QuickTime: About the QuickTime 6.2 Update | url=http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93052 | access-date=January 8, 2007}}</ref> (iTunes was not available for Windows until October 2003.)

On June 3, 2003, Apple released QuickTime 6.3, delivering the following:<ref>{{cite web | title=Apple&nbsp;– QuickTime: About QuickTime 6.3 | url=http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93137 | access-date=January 8, 2007}}</ref>

* Support for [[3GPP]], including [[3G]] Text, video, and audio (AAC and [[Adaptive Multi-Rate|AMR]] codecs).
* Support for the .3gp, .amr, and .sdv file formats via separate component.

QuickTime 6.4, released on October 16, 2003, for Mac OS X v10.2, [[Mac OS X v10.3]], and Windows, added the following:<ref>{{cite web | title=Apple&nbsp;– Developer&nbsp;– What's New in QuickTime 6.4 For Mac OS X | url=https://developer.apple.com/documentation/QuickTime/WhatsNewQT6_4/index.html | access-date=January 8, 2007}}</ref>

* Addition of the Apple [[Pixlet]] codec (only for Mac OS X v10.3 and later).
* [[ColorSync]] support.
* Integrated [[3GPP]].

On December 18, 2003, Apple released QuickTime 6.5, supporting the same systems as version 6.4. Versions 6.5.1 and 6.5.2 followed on April 28, 2004, and October 27, 2004. These versions would be the last to support Windows 98 and Me. The 6.5 family added the following features:<ref>{{cite web |title = Apple&nbsp;– Developer&nbsp;– What's New in QuickTime 6.5 For Mac OS X|url = https://developer.apple.com/documentation/QuickTime/WhatsNewQT6_5/index.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40000965|access-date = January 8, 2007|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080223212024/http://developer.apple.com/documentation/QuickTime/WhatsNewQT6_5/Chap1/chapter_1_section_1.html|archive-date = 2008-02-23|url-status = dead}}</ref>

* [[3GP]]P2 and AMC mobile multimedia formats.
* [[QCELP]] voice code.
* Apple Lossless (in version 6.5.1<ref>{{Cite web|title = QuickTime 6.5.1 adds Lossless Encoder, improves AAC|url = http://www.neowin.net/news/quicktime-651-adds-lossless-encoder-improves-aac|website = Neowin|access-date = 2016-01-24|date = 2004-04-28}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title = QuickTime 6.5.1 adds Lossless Encoder, improves AAC|url = http://www.macworld.com/article/1031552/quicktime.html|website = [[Macworld]]|access-date = 2016-01-24|date = 2004-04-28}}</ref>).

QuickTime 6.5.3 was released on October 12, 2005, for Mac OS X v10.2.8 after the release of QuickTime 7.0, fixing a number of security issues.