> You may have noticed that Apple's QuickTime Player 7 is available > for download. As of this writing, the player is only available > for Mac OS X, and the latest QuickTime files are only viewable > on that platform. That is, unless you are using an FFmpeg-derived > multimedia application. Thanks to dedicated multimedia hackers > from the FFmpeg and x264 projects, FFmpeg's libavcodec can already > decode the next-generation (buzzword alert!) H.264 video codec data > inside the latest Apple QuickTime files. Along with the free, > open source FAAD AAC decoding library (for the audio track) and > a competent QuickTime file demuxer, open source software is already > equipped to handle the newest multimedia files on the internet. ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/index.php
