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- Sparkle 2.1.5 A mac-look-and-feel MPEG and QT player and converter.
-
- This should replace Sparkle 2.1.5 in the info-mac archives.
- This version makes the following changes to Sparkle 2.1.4
- Two serious bugs were fixed
- * There was a memory leak when converting a set of PICTs to a movie, so
- the more PICTs you wanted to convert, the more memory was needed.
- * A certain class of MPEGs was displayed with the color misaligned with
- the underlying intensity of the image, looking like cheap Sunday
- newspaper color photos.
-
- I have been making much more extensive alterations to Sparkle and was
- hoping to release that, but that work's become more extensive than I
- expected so for now this is a quick bug-fix release.
-
- 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, PICTs and QT movies and converts between them. It is
- multifinder friendly and, with enough memory, will open multiple
- documents at once.
- It is free.
-
- REQUIRES:
- System 7 or greater.
- QuickTime 1.6 or greater.
- An 020 based mac or greater.
- This version requires the Thread Manager. If you use MODE32 get the
- latest version 7.5 of MODE32 before using the Thread Manager.
-
- You can ftp Sparkle from sumex-aim.stanford.edu (or a mirror like
- mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu) in info-mac/grf/util.
- You can ftp the Thread Manager from ftp.apple.com in
- dts/mac/sys.soft/extensions/Thread_manager_201.hqx
- (or upgrade to system 7.5 which has the Thread Manager built in,
- since in future I will start to use 7.5 features.)
- You can ftp MODE32 from sumex-aim.stanford.edu in info-mac/cfg.
-
- Maynard Handley
- maynard@elwing.otago.ac.nz
- September 20 1994
-