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Short: XAnim - animation viewer 2.69.7.5, at least 68020+WB2.04
Author: Mark Podlipec/Terje Pedersen (Amiga part)
Uploader: terjepe@stud.cs.uit.no
Type: gfx/show
This is a 'no changes whatsoever' 'port' of the X11 animation viewer Xanim
(ok, 3 lines containing X11_LSB had to be changed to X11_MSB..)
by Mark Podlipec. It means that the program relies on my libX11 to run, and
does everything in the same manner as the X11 version does. Which means
internally it uses a chunky representation of the frames and isn't what
you would call fast! (great on my A4000/040 though!)
It uses the chunky stuff from Morten Eriksen (thanks Morten!),
which may cause problems on some gfx cards.
setenv X11/askmode 1 : xanim will pop up an asl screenmode requester
before opening the screen. (this is wb2.1+ only!)
This is improved somewhat and will probably work better with gfxcards.
(It has been reported to work ok with PicassoII)
setenv X11/gfxcard 1 : xanim will not use the chunky stuff from Morten
but WritePixelArray and other system functions. If the program loads
the anim but crashes horribly after opening the screen, try it!
setenv X11/usepub Workbench : xanim will open a window on the workbench
and display the anim there!
setenv X11/debug 1 : prints a couple of debug lines..
set stack to at least 20000! (it doesn't do any stackcheck!)
If you are trying to run this on a non AGA machine and
no gfx board either then the anims may not look too good!
(32 colors max when running 256 color anims usually looks
somewhat poor) But you will probably get a general idea as
to how it might look in 256 colors! Also not running on wb3.0+
it might easily crash if you are unlucky!
some info from the xanim.man file:
XAnim is a program that can display animations of various
formats on systems running X11. XAnim currently supports
the following animation types:
+ FLI animations.
+ FLC animations.
+ IFF animations. The following features are sup-
ported:
-> Compressions 3,5,7,J(movies) and l(small L).
-> Color cycling during single images and anims.
-> Display Modes: depth 1-8, EHB, HAM and HAM8.
+ GIF87a and GIF89a files.
-> single and multiple images supported.
-> GIF89a animation extensions supported.
+ GIF89a animation extension support.
+ a kludgy text file listing gifs and what order to
show them in.
+ DL animations. Formats 1, 2 and 3. TEMPORARILY DISABLED.
+ Amiga PFX(PageFlipper Plus F/X) animations. DISABLED TEMPORARILY.
+ Amiga MovieSetter animations(For those Eric Schwartz
fans).
+ Utah Raster Toolkit RLE images and anims.
+ AVI animations. Currently supported are
->*IBM Ultimotion (ULTI) depth 16.
-> JPEG (JPEG) depth 24.
-> Motion JPEG (MJPG) depth 24.
-> Intergraph JPEG (IJPG) depth 24.
-> Microsoft Video 1 (CRAM) depth 8 and 16.
-> SuperMac Cinepak (CVID) depth 24.
-> Uncompressed (RGB ) depth 8
-> Run length encoded (RLE8) depth 8.
+ Quicktime Animations. The following features are
supported:
-> Uncompressed (RAW ) depth 4,8,16,24,24+ and GRAY 4,8.
-> Apple Graphics (RLE ) depth 1,8,16 and 24 and GRAY 8.
-> Apple Animation (SMC ) depth 8 and GRAY.
-> Apple Video (RPZA) depth 16.
-> SuperMac Cinepak (CVID) depth 24 and GRAY 8.
-> ??? YUV2 (YUV2) depth 24.
-> Photo JPEG (JPEG) depth 8 and 24.
-> Supports multiple video trak's.
-> Supports animations with multiple codecs.
-> Supports single-fork and separate .rsrc and .data forks.
+ JFIF images. NOTE: use XV for single images. This is more
for animation of a sequence of JPEG images.
+ WAV audio files may have their sound added to any animation
type that doesn't already have audio, by specifying the .wav
file after the animation file on the command line. Currently
only the PCM audio codec is supported.
+ any combination of the above on the same command
line.
source headers say:
/*
* xanim.c
*
* Copyright (C) 1990,1991,1992,1993,1994 by Mark Podlipec.
* All rights reserved.
*
* This software may be freely copied, modified and redistributed without
* fee for non-commerical purposes provided that this copyright notice is
* preserved intact on all copies and modified copies.
*
* There is no warranty or other guarantee of fitness of this software.
* It is provided solely "as is". The author(s) disclaim(s) all
* responsibility and liability with respect to this software's usage
* or its effect upon hardware or computer systems.
*
*/
So redistribute it any way you like, (if you find it worthy of the
effort..)
If you can think of anything that involves my address:
Terje Pedersen
Oterveien 55
9017 Tromsoe
Norway
or if you want to tell me how great the 'port' is you can use
terjepe@stud.cs.uit.no :-)
I can't legally charge anything for this program, but if you are
really impressed by my efforts and want to support my work, no
one can prevent you from sending me a small contribution!
Want to know more about xanim? try:
http://www.portal.com/~podlipec/home.html "The XAnim Home Page"
And thanks to all who has suggested improvements and ways
to prevent possible problems on other configurations! (thanks Olaf!)
TP
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5441 2527 53.5% 27-Jan-95 13:19:10 xanim26975/amiga.readme
338440 164335 51.4% 30-Jan-95 01:10:46 xanim26975/xanim
23379 8705 62.7% 26-Jan-95 00:10:58 xanim26975/xanim.man
34769 13378 61.5% 26-Jan-95 00:10:58 xanim26975/xanim.readme
13295 5614 57.7% 26-Jan-95 00:10:58 xanim26975/xanim.revhist
30613 9766 68.0% 27-Jan-95 13:02:54 xanim26975/xanim.txt
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