QuickTime 5.0.1: Sorenson 3 codec dropped

Apple has made at least one change between Preview 3 and the QuickTime 5.0.1: it has dropped the Sorenson 3 codec. Judging from our email, more than a few users are unhappy with the change.

John Fowler writes: "I went to play some Sorenson 3-compressed movies, and I received the 'QuickTime is missing the necessary software to play this' message. I looked at the codec list, and sure enough, Sorenson 3 wasn't there. I'm still trying to figure out why they'd make the full version less functional than the beta."

Harry Zink writes: "It is very dismaying to see that Apple has removed the Sorenson 3 codec from the final version of QT 5, even though it was not only present during the entire beta process. Especially since Apple made a big deal out of the superior quality of Sorenson 3. At the very least, they should have provided an explanation as to why it was removed."

Also see our QuickTime 5.0.1 QuickTopic Forum for more comments and reports. And just for the record, 5.0 was never released, 5.0.1 is the first non-preview version.