As a newish Mac user, you may wonder what allows your computer to display pictures and play music and movies. Wonder no longer. This bit of media magic is performed by something called QuickTime.

I've got some old time-lapse data that neither QuickTime nor VLC can open because they were encoded with the Pixlet codec. Is there any way I can install this in the current version of QuickTime?

You can find it in Software Update (27MB!) if you’re not upgrading to Tiger for whatever reason. Quicktime 7 includes a lot of new stuff but probably the most ...

Having the QuickTime plugin enabled in Firefox is a convenient way to gain instant access to a QuickTime business video or seminar on a Web page without launching the desktop version of the media ...