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- Sparkle 2.1 A mac-look-and-feel MPEG and QT player and converter.
-
- This should replace Sparkle 2.02 in the info-mac archives.
- This is a massive overhaul of your favorite MPEG program. The most
- notable changes are
- * Much faster playback---especially on 8bit screens. Fast playback
- requires compromising image quality. If you don't like the compromises
- I made, change them---look at Preferences under the Edit menu.
- Don't worry---when you save an MPEG file as a different file, modes
- are changed so that the file is saved at the best possible quality.
- * Realtime playback, dropping frames if necessary. Also the MovieController
- adjustable rate setting (control-click on the step buttons) now works
- with MPEGs.
- * Resizable windows.
- * Conversion of a set of PICTs to a movie or MPEG.
- * Intelligent window tiling, even with oversize windows and multiple
- screens of different depths. To see this, open two or more movies at
- once.
- And literally hundreds of small changes all the way through the code.
- Look through the menus, try the tab, shift-tab and control-tab keys,
- and read the ``What's New in 2.1'' file for full details.
- If you've suggested a feature to me in the past, it may well be
- implemented in this release, though maybe not in the way you expected.
- Try out whatever it was that you were hoping for and see if it works.
-
- This version
- * is not PPC native
- * does not support sound
- * does not support apple events
- * does not support online help
- These are all high priorities, pretty much in that order.
-
- As always, if you find any bug or anomaly in this code please tell me.
- The sooner you tell me, the sooner I'll fix it.
- As always there remain a few rough edges to this program, though I hope
- most of them won't be too distressing to users. Like previous rough
- edges, they'll be done away with in time.
-
- •••
- !!! If you write to me PLEASE give me a decent address I can reply to.
- !!! About 10% of the e-mail I receive has a bogus return address---I try
- !!! to reply to you and a few hours or days later I get a message from the
- !!! mail system that my mail could not be delivered.
- !!! This is very frustrating to me and a waste of your and my time.
- !!! I have NEVER just ignored mail sent to me about Sparkle. If I don't
- !!! reply to you, it's because you sent me mail with a garbage return address.
- !!! Check out your mail system and write to me again when it works properly.
- •••
-
- WHAT IS IT?
- Sparkle plays MPEGs and QT movies and converts between them. It is
- multifinder friendly and, with enough memory, will open multiple
- documents at once.
- It is free. I ask only that you read the enclosed README file and if you
- can help with any of the issues I raise there, you mail me.
-
- REQUIRES:
- System 7 or greater.
- QuickTime 1.6 or greater.
- An 020 based mac or greater.
- This version requires the Thread Manager.
-
- Maynard Handley
- maynard@elwing.otago.ac.nz
- July 10 1994