QuickTime Components

QuickTime includes several components that are provided by Apple. These components provide essential services to your application and to the managers that make up the QuickTime architecture. The following Apple-defined components are among those used by QuickTime:

• movie controller components, which allow applications to play movies using a standard user interface standard image compression dialog components, which allow the user to specify the parameters for a compression operation by supplying a dialog box or a similar mechanism
• image compressor components, which compress and decompress image data sequence grabber components, which allow applications to preview and record video and sound data as QuickTime movies video digitizer components, which allow applications to control video digitization by an external device
• media data-exchange components, which allow applications to move various types of data in and out of a QuickTime movie derived media handler components, which allow QuickTime to support new types of data in QuickTime movies
• clock components, which provide timing services defined for QuickTime applications preview components, which are used by the Movie Toolbox's standard file preview functions to display and create visual previews for files sequence grabber components, which allow applications to obtain digitized data from sources that are external to a Macintosh computer
• sequence grabber channel components, which manipulate captured data for a sequence grabber component
• sequence grabber panel components, which allow sequence grabber components to obtain configuration information from the user for a particular sequence grabber channel component

We will study programming aspects of the above with Java in the next Chapter.