Does Quicktime 7 decoder decode H.264 baseline profile?

Hi,
We're planning to generate H.264 explicitly for quicktime. We plan to encode as baseline profile. Does Quicktime handle playback of baseline profile?
Based on a 2005 technology description, at the time it sounded like Quicktime only decoded main profile.
Thanks a lot!

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...Have you read this yet?
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