Introduction to QuickTime Kit Programming Guide

Provides a tutorial on how to build and extend a QTKitPlayer application using the QuickTime Kit framework in Cocoa.

Who Should Read This Document

If you are a Cocoa developer who wants to integrate QuickTime movies in your application, you should read the material presented in this document. The various QuickTime and Cocoa mailing lists provide a useful developer forum for raising issues and answering questions that are posted.

If you are new to Cocoa or QuickTime, you should read these webpages, which are intended to get you up to speed with both Apple technologies: Getting Started with Cocoa and Getting Started with QuickTime .

Organization of This Document

This document follows a progressive, learn-as-you-go structure. Each chapter depends, to a certain extent, on understanding the material in any previous chapters.

The QuickTime Kit API describes the various classes and functions in the QuickTime Kit and some of their possible uses.

Building a Simple QTKitPlayer Application explains how you can build a simple QTKitPlayer application.

Extending the QTKitPlayer Application discusses how you can extend the functionality of the QTKitPlayer application by adding Cocoa code to your Xcode project.

Adding New Capabilities to the QTKitPlayer Application discusses how you can add a simple Cocoa drawer with a timer to your QTKitPlayer application and how you can take advantage of the QuickTime C API.

Extending the QTKitPlayer To Stream Audio and Video describes how you can add the streaming of audio and video to your QTKitPlayer application.

Adding Multimedia Playback Capability explains in detail how you can extend your QTKitPlayer application to add multimedia playback capabilities.

Introduction to QuickTime Kit Programming Guide

Who Should Read This Document

Organization of This Document

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