QuickTime is the best platform providing the most complete solution. The free QuickTime Broadcaster software lets you produce live events. Create movies with QuickTime Pro for just $29.99. QuickTime Streaming Server delivering live and on-demand content with no per stream license fees.The QuickTime platform provides a cost effective, end-to-end solution for the creation, delivery, and playback of standards-based multimedia, including the incredible new H.264 codec .

The QuickTime multimedia architecture contains over 2,500 fully documented, cross platform APIs allowing software developers to leverage QuickTime¡¯s capabilities in authoring, multimedia and entertainment applications. Easily make your application multimedia enabled with QuickTime. Let QuickTime do the heavy lifting so you can focus on the rest.

Create an immersive, interactive experience for your customers using a variety of media types and formats beyond just audio and video. The QuickTime file format is a track-based, container-like format that enables you to combine almost any media (audio, video, still images, text, VR, chapters and even alternate languages) in a single movie. What¡¯s more, you can automate your digital media workflow on both Mac and Windows with AppleScript and Automator support.

When you distribute your media in QuickTime, you automatically gain access to a massive platform. Available for both Windows and Mac, QuickTime 6 was downloaded more than 350 million times. Moreover 98% of those downloads were from PC users, at a rate of over 10 million per month. QuickTime offers a mature platform with thousands of professional and consumer authoring applications.