QuickTime
From Applepedia
QuickTime is Apple's video technology. It was amazing back in 1991 when it was released, and the file format is still much better than Microsofts equivalent (AVI) which was released a year later.
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QuickTime: The format
Apple had the foresight to make the format very extensible. The QuickTime Movie format (Type: MooV, .mov) supports a virtually unlimited number of tracks, of such varying types as Video, Audio, MIDI, Text, Still images, Flash, effects (such as filters or generated fire), chapters and timecodes. All layers can have an alpha channel, and QuickTime also supports interactivity. Of course the format also has room for metadata.
QuickTime: The player
Windows users tend to hate the player, new Mac users tend to dislike it. Since QuickTime 3.0, Apple has taken some features of the player and deemed them "Pro", such as viewing video full screen. This is not a limitation of QuickTime itself, any developer worth his salt can write a player that plays a movie full-screen, it's just the actual player app that's limited. For this reason many users hung on to MoviePlayer 2.5, which was by many considered the last Good version of the QuickTime player, since it was before they made the interface all huge and metal, plus it had all the Pro features for free.
QuickTime: Tip
You can force QuickTime to play video files in full screen mode using AppleScript.
Type:
on open fileName
tell application "QuickTime Player"
open fileName
present movie 1
end tell
end open
