Editing QuickTime (section)

=== QuickTime 1.x ===
The original video [[codec]]s included:

* the [[Animation codec]], which used [[run-length encoding]] and was better suited to cartoon-type images with large areas of flat color
* the [[Apple Video]] codec (also known as "Road Pizza"), suited to normal live-action video.<ref>[http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=Apple_RPZA Apple RPZA - MultimediaWiki]. wiki.multimedia.cx (December 11, 2008). Retrieved on August 23, 2013.</ref>
* the [[QuickTime Graphics|Graphics]] codec, for 8-bit images, including ones that had undergone [[dithering]]

The first commercial project produced using QuickTime 1.0 was the CD-ROM [https://web.archive.org/web/20070607104108/http://www.againstallodds.com/alice.htm From Alice to Ocean]. The first publicly visible use of QuickTime was [[Ben & Jerry's]] interactive factory tour (dubbed ''The Rik & Joe Show'' after its in-house developers). ''The Rik and Joe Show'' was demonstrated onstage at MacWorld in San Francisco when [[John Sculley]] announced QuickTime.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.maclife.com/article/feature/complete_history_macworld_expo?page=0,1 |title=The Complete History of the Macworld Expo |access-date=August 2, 2013 |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140804220227/http://www.maclife.com/article/feature/complete_history_macworld_expo?page=0,1 |archive-date=August 4, 2014 }}</ref>

Apple released QuickTime 1.5 for Mac OS in the latter part of 1992. This added the SuperMac-developed [[Cinepak]] vector-quantization video codec (initially known as Compact Video). It could play video at 320×240 resolution at 30 frames per second on a 25 MHz [[Motorola 68040]] CPU. It also added ''text'' tracks, which allowed for captioning, lyrics and other potential uses.

Apple contracted [[San Francisco Canyon Company]] to port QuickTime to the Windows platform.<ref name="Apple: The Inside Story">{{Cite book |last=Carlton |first=Jim |date=1997 |title=Apple: The inside story of intrigue, egomania, and business blunders |location=New York |publisher=Random House |page=[https://archive.org/details/appleinsidestory00carl/page/309 309] |isbn=0-8129-2851-2 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/appleinsidestory00carl/page/309 }}</ref> Version 1.0 of QuickTime for Windows provided only a subset of the full QuickTime API, including only movie playback functions driven through the standard movie controller.

QuickTime 1.6 came out the following year. Version 1.6.2 first incorporated the "QuickTime PowerPlug" which replaced some components with [[PowerPC]]-native code when running on PowerPC Macs.