14.7.1. Why would one want to produce
QuickTime-compatible Files?
There are several reasons why producing QuickTime-compatible
files can be desirable.
You want any computer illiterate to be able to watch your
encode on any major platform (Windows, Mac OS X, Unices …).
QuickTime is able to take advantage of more hardware and
software acceleration features of Mac OS X than platform-independent
players like MPlayer or VLC. That means that your encodes have a chance
to be played smoothly by older G4-powered machines.
QuickTime 7 supports the next-generation codec H.264, which
yields significantly better picture quality than previous codec
generations (MPEG-2, MPEG-4 …).
