I confirmed with the author that the BasicQTURLController.Java program fails in
Windows but does work properly in OS X. A bug report has been submitted to Apple.

The code in the book works as shown, but needs a fix when non-zero timecodes are used.
Here we go:

This code works when the timecode is 00:00:00;00 -- i.e., when you construct the
TimeCodeTime object as shown in the example -- but if you use other timecode values,
you get incorrect values on Windows.

This is because later on, when inserting the sample into the timecode track, you must
use big-endian values for any data you put in a QuickTime data structure, for reasons
described later (on pp. 207-8). This example doesn't do that, so when using non-zero
timecodes, it works on Mac but not Windows.

To expose the problem, change:

TimeCodeTime tcTime = new TimeCodeTime (0, 0, 0, 0);

to

TimeCodeTime tcTime = new TimeCodeTime (1, 2, 3, 4);

To then fix the problem, you need to apply an endian-fix to the frame number returned
from timeCoder.toFrameNumber, before you add the frame number as a sample to the
timecode track. An easy place to fix that is to change:

frameNums[0] = frameNumber;

to

frameNums[0] = EndianOrder.flipNativeToBigEndian32 (frameNumber);

This will create a timecode track that begins at 01:02:03;04, on both Mac and
Windows.