Programming With QuickTime VR
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This chapter describes the format of the tracks that make up a QuickTime VR movie file. The information in this chapter, combined with the information in Chapter 4, "QuickTime VR Atom Containers," and the overview from Chapter 1, "About QuickTime VR," will enable you to add to your application the ability to create QuickTime VR movies. This chapter uses the term QuickTime VR file format, even though this is a bit of a misnomer, because the chapter does not describe the details of exactly where data is stored in the file nor does it describe the format of the standard QuickTime movie atoms. That information is available in Inside Macintosh: QuickTime. However, you do not need to know that level of detail to create QuickTime VR movies, because QuickTime provides several routines for creating QuickTime movies. You do need to be familiar with the sections of that book that describe how to create movies and how to work with media samples. You should also be familiar with track references as described in QuickTime 3 Reference .
This chapter describes the file format supported by version 2.1 of the QuickTime VR Manager. For information on the file format supported by earlier versions of QuickTime VR, see Macintosh Technotes numbers 1035 and 1036. The Macintosh Technotes are available electronically on the Developer CD Series and on the Technote Web site at http://developer.apple.com/technotes/index.html
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