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QuickTime is a multimedia technology developed by Apple Computer, capable of handling various formats of digital video, sound, text, animation, music, and immersive panoramic (and sphere panoramic) images.

Apple released the first version of QuickTime on December 2, 1991 as a multimedia add-on for System Software 6 and later. The lead developer of QuickTime, Bruce Leak, ran the first public demonstration at the May 1991 Worldwide Developers Conference, where he played Apple's famous 1984 TV commercial on a Mac, at the time an astounding technological breakthrough. Microsoft's competing technology — Video for Windows — did not appear until November 1992.

QuickTime 5.0 for Mac OS appeared on April 23, 2001. It added "skins" to the QuickTime Player and multiprocessor image compression support. The other notable addition was the controversial move of making full screen video modes only available to QuickTime Pro license holders. Four years later, on May 9, 2005, Apple released iTunes 4.8 with support for viewing full screen QuickTime video, through iTunes.

With Quicktime installed, you can use Cornica.org on your System 7 Mac. It's a Quicktime video portal dedicated to old Macs. So you can stream and download movie trailers, commercials and more to your System 7 machine like back in the day!

Minimum System Requirements

Download

Download Quicktime 5 (PowerPC only) at the Mac Garden

Technical Notes

You may notice that after installing QuickTime 5, JPEG images will display improperly or not at all. Here's a possible solution to this problem.

For 68k Macs

QuickTime version 5 will not work on your computer. The latest version for 68k Macs is QuickTime 4.0.3.

Download QuickTime 4.0.3 (68k Only)

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