Comment Quicktime documentation (Score 1) 214
I don't feel like finding the specific article to reply to, but someone complains about QuickTime not being documented in this thread. Nothing could be further from the truth; there are thousands of pages of documentation.
http://deve loper.apple.com/techpubs/quicktime/qtdevdocs/RM/f
However, no, the modern codecs are not documented there. Those are proprietary software that Apple licensed from Sorenson (Sorenson Video), Intel (Indeo), QDesign (QDesign Music), Qualcomm (PureVoice), and Roland (GS MIDI).
Anyone hoping to make a QuickTime player not supported by Apple that would play those modern codecs would have to negotiate licenses with those companies.
And, yes, they would sue if you reverse engineered the formats.
