November 2003
Beginner
768 pages
17h 31m
English
In the previous chapter, you learned to use several practical applications that come with Mac OS X. In this chapter, we’ll try out some more entertainment-oriented applications—QuickTime and DVD Player.
You learned in Chapter 1, “Introducing Mac OS X,” that QuickTime is one of Mac OS X’s built-in imaging components. By using its technology, system applications can support reading or writing many different image formats.
You might also know that QuickTime is a popular media player used to enjoy media, both from within a Web browser and as an application on your desktop. In the first half of this chapter, we look at using QuickTime 6.
QuickTime supports most common digital media formats, ...