Quicktime is a series of commercial codecs designed and distributed by Apple. Designed primarily for the Apple OS they allow the playback and creation of video and audio files. They allow developers to write software to a known standard that everyone has (or can have). With the past popularity of some multimedia using Quicktime encoded video and audio the Quicktime codec series was also developed for the Microsoft Windows platform. The Quicktime download is also used as a vehicle for distributing Apples ecommerce venture iTunes shopping software.

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