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Remove the PRO label from QuickTime 7 Player
Authored by: gidds on May 12, '05 05:53:08PM
Well, yes, it would be very nice, but it's just struck me that they may not have the option.

It may be like the situation with iDVD. IIRC, the free version of that is only available with a DVD writer, and can only use that device; if you want to burn to anything else, you have to pay for iDVD. The reason for that is the DVD consortium, which enforces a licence fee for the ability to burn DVDs. That licence fee is included in the cost of a DVD drive, but the only way to make sure it's always been paid is to restrict burning to that drive, and to charge for the unrestricted version.

Maybe the same applies to QuickTime? One of the features that's only available in the Pro version is exporting to MP3; isn't a licence fee required for that to the Fraunhofer people?

So, much as we may hate the the upgrade fee, Apple may have no choice.

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Remove the PRO label from QuickTime 7 Player
Authored by: derrickbass on May 13, '05 06:05:05AM

No. QuickTime Pro is just a GUI around the editing and export functions of the Quicktime API, and those functions are available in the default install of QuickTime. If someone wanted to, they could write a clone of QuickTime Pro and give it away for free.

In fact there are lots of programs that provide some of the same functions as QT Pro (e.g. there are full screen players and there are export programs and there are programs that join and multiplex files and so on); I've written such programs, and no licensing is needed; you just write to the QT API and it works. (Actually, there's one exception: exporting MPEG-4 on Windows; the developer needs to get a license from MPEG-LA in order to use that part of QuickTime.)



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