Question about Quicktime Pro/Codec on Windows

Does anyone know if Quicktime Pro for windows installs a usable H.264 codec? I'd like to be able to encode directly to the codec via a 3rd party application instead of using Quicktime for encoding. If all the encoding is within Quicktime Pro, then I'm guess this won't work?
Anyone know if this is possible?

I'm not sure what you mean by a "usable" codec. If by that you mean you want the third-party application to be able to encode to H.264, that depends entirely on the third-party app. If it can use QuickTime codecs, then the codec should be usable without needing a Pro key (which just unlocks the editing and export capabilities of QT Player; the free version of QuickTime already has all the codecs Apple provides for Windows). If the third-party app doesn't use the QT codecs, then buying a Pro key will not make it do so.

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