Class 5 Reading - QuickTime, QuickTime, QuickTime....

Wooten has many good things to say about the QuickTime player and promotes its nonlinear playback and capability to support open standards formatting. Is it just me or does it seem like this chapter was ripped from the QuickTime owner's manual?

QuickTime and MPEG-4 wil cooperate well together especially since MPEG-4, as it is described in this chapter, is based on the QuickTime file format. The ability to adjust the layout of the QuickTime player is described as a unique and 'tricky' capability. But, I would really like to see where this can be useful, or I guess better put more functional. I suppose the moto and much of the selling point of Apple formats is tailored to the design savvy user and therefore functionality is not a main concern.

My favorite term from this chapter is definitely "re-skinning a QuickTime player."