This article outlines the new features in QuickTime 4.

• Streaming Internet services
  • Play live and stored streaming video and audio using standards-based low-bit-rate compressors and decompressors
  • Experience smooth playback even over 28.8-Kbps modems
  • Network protocol support: HTTP, RTP/RTSP, FTP
  • URL data handler
  • Ability to open an HTTP, RTSP, or FTP URL, including password-protected FTP sites, in the QuickTime Player
• Easy-to-use QuickTime Player interface
  • Visible Timecode and audio EQ display
  • Single-click access to your favorite QuickTime movies
• Automatic selection of the best-quality movie for a given Internet connection, processor speed, or spoken language
  • Internet decompressors: H.263, GSM, MS DVI, RTP DVI, MPEG-1 Layer 3 (MP3)
• Small, fast dynamic Internet installer
  • Component installation updates your system as you need it
• Optimized audio sample rate conversion for improved playback quality
• Bass, treble, and balance control
• Sophisticated lens flare and zoom effects
• QuickTime API support for Java
• QuickTime VR speed and accuracy improvements
• QuickDraw 3D support for compressed textures and wired sprite actions
• QuickDraw 3D performance improvements
• Media import and export for PNG, TIFF, TARGA, MacPaint, Macromedia Flash, and FlashPix formats (import only for FlashPix)
• Image sequence movie exporters