The software-only solution for multimedia playback on Macintosh, UNIX and Windows
PACo is a revolutionary software-only compression and playback system for presenting digital videos, animations, images and sound on all of the major computing platforms. Its unique file format lets you compile multimedia productions on Apple's Macintosh¿ machines and play them back on Macs. PACo makes all audio/visual files, including QuickTime, platform independent.
Features
The only available software solution for playing multimedia documents - including QuickTime movies - on Macintosh
Animations are limited only by available disk space not RAM
Animations and digital videos start instantly and play in less than one megabyte of RAM
Scale up or down, dither to 8, 4, 2 or 1 bit and easily change palettes
Easily quadruple the size of the image with little change in performance
The unique compression/decompression delivers professional quality performance from CD-ROM
Productions with large moving images play smoothly for the highest quality presentations
Create self-playing documents for easy click-and-play functionality
Seamlessly integrate movies into productions done in HyperCard, SuperCard, Plus, Director and Authorware
The reconstructed image sequence is identical to the original
System Requirements
Any Macintosh Plus, Classic, SE/30, LC, II, IIx, IIcx, IIci, IIfx, Quadra, PowerBook
1MB RAM minimum, 2MB recommended
System 6.0.5 or higher, System 7 compatible
QuickTime compatible
For compressing animations: 68020 processor or higher is required
PACo is compatible with any program that outputs PICS, PICT or QuickTime files.
