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By Dan Tynan With the $30 QuickTime 6.0 Pro, Apple lets you create and play streaming video and audio and offers nifty features you won't find in RealNetworks' RealVideo or Microsoft's Windows Media Player. (Full-screen video playback, anyone?) QuickTime 6.0 also supports the new compression scheme, but QuickTime newbies will find the program's many tools baffling, and the Windows version suffers notable flaws, such as no phone tech support. Buy the full version only if you're serious about creating streaming Web content; everyone else should just download the free player. By With the $30 QuickTime 6.0 Pro, Apple lets you create and play streaming video and audio and offers nifty features you won't find in RealNetworks' RealVideo or Microsoft's Windows Media Player. (Full-screen video playback, anyone?) QuickTime 6.0 also supports the new compression scheme, but QuickTime newbies will find the program's many tools baffling, and the Windows version suffers notable flaws, such as no phone tech support. Buy the full version only if you're serious about creating streaming Web content; everyone else should just download the free player.

Cool tools QuickTime Pro isn't a full-fledged video editor like Apple or Pinnacle, but it offers rudimentary tools for patching together streaming clips. For example, you can use QuickTime 6.0 to stitch together digital video of all your kids' birthday parties and put a streaming version on your site. Or, use the app to create a simple slide show-mixing text slides, photos, and a soundtrack-and e-mail it to colleagues across the country. As a playback device-say, just to watch online video or view a DVD on your machine-the free version of QuickTime 6.0 keeps up with its predecessors. Our streaming tests revealed smooth video delivery and superb-sounding audio. And the program's Instant On capability lets cable and DSL users avoid annoying buffer delays while online media streams to the hard drive.

(Sorry, dial-up folks; it won't help you.) MPEG letdown If you're looking for slick file compression, QuickTime 6.0 provides it. The new version lets you view and create MPEG-4 files, which provide higher quality streaming video and audio, smaller file sizes, and protection against illegal copying-in theory, at least. Man of steel tamil dubbed tamilrockers. Currently, manufacturers are busy building MPEG-4 support into devices from cell phones to smart TVs, so you'll be able to play back the video you create in QuickTime on a wide range of devices. Unfortunately, over royalties with MPEG-4's licensing body have left the format in limbo; there's very little MPEG-4 video available on the Web today.

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So, despite all the hype, you'll only be able to create your own MPEG-4 video; you won't be able to use QuickTime to watch Hollywood blockbusters, such as Austin Powers, in all their groovy MPEG-4 glory. And speaking of support, if you want to view MPEG-2 files-the format used in DVD movies-you'll have to pony up an additional $20 for a decoder. Windows Media Player doesn't include an MPEG-2 decoder, either, for.

Support-free-as in, nonexistent Need help with QuickTime? If you're using it on a PC, forget it.

Windows users get absolutely no phone support, aside from that for installation. A sympathetic support tech directed us to a QuickTime for Windows buried deep inside Apple's site, where Apple technicians read and respond to questions. We found many questions from perplexed Windows users-but no answers. Mac users, on the other hand, get priority in the discussion group, as well as the aforementioned helpful phone techs. QuickTime 6.0 Pro for Windows also leaves some bugs to swat, ranging from annoying little flaws (it can't open files with names longer than 64 characters) to more serious issues. For example, the program may not run properly if your PC has the older QuickTime 32 version installed, and removing that program means editing your Windows Registry-not a task for the timid.

We found Mac performance much smoother and more reliable.