Amaya Toman In December 1991, Apple released the first public version of its media player, which could be enjoyed by Mac owners running System 7. The software innovation included codecs for graphics, animation and video, and became another factor that Apple moved to the next level in the field of multimedia.
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Owners of Macs with the System 7 operating system have thus gained much richer options when it comes to playing multimedia files. In the late XNUMXs and early XNUMXs, a number of technology companies, including Apple, demonstrated efforts to enable video playback on personal computers. One of Apple's engineers - Steve Perlman - wrote a program called QuickScan in the XNUMXs to enable video playback on the Mac. Although QuickScan received a public presentation, Apple ultimately did not proceed with its official release.
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But the work on QuickScan paved the way for the future QuickTime Player. It was first shown to the public during the worldwide developer conference in May 1991, the first beta version saw the light of day in early July of the same year. The first video to be played publicly through QuickTime Player was the iconic commercial for the first Macintosh called "1984", and developer Bruce Leak played it at 320 x 240 pixels. QuickTime was considered revolutionary for many reasons at the time of its arrival. Users could customize both audio and video playback, and QuickTime was able to cope with playback in the case of lower computer performance so that the video track was always aligned with the audio playback.
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The release of QuickTime Player, however, certainly did not end the activity of the Cupertino company in the field of multimedia. QuickTime gradually reached the owners of personal computers with the Windows operating system, the player itself improved with each subsequent version and received new functions. Apple later introduced its iTunes service, within which it later offered the possibility to watch and download short and feature films, and a few years later it introduced its own streaming service. At first glance, it might seem that QuickTime has somehow receded into the background over the years, but it still has its staunch supporters today. Do you use QuickTime to play videos on your Mac, or do you prefer other software?
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