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- • There are a number of small cosmetic bugs in this 2.1.5 version of
- Sparkle. For example after saving a set of PICTs to a movie, the PICT
- sequence displays picture #1 in the window, not the last picture
- (this does affect the movie, it just confuses the display). Another
- example is when converting a QT movie to an MPEG, the QT movie
- controller is not hidden properly.) These are all fixed in 2.1.6, but
- 2.1.6 is bogged down in major rewriting of its threading code so I
- issued this quick 2.1.5 fix to the most serious bugs.
-
-
- • I don't allow you to shrink movies or MPEGs to smaller than 100 pixels wide.
- This is mainly because the MovieController Component starts looking less
- and less pleasant as it gets smaller. I can't see this being a major limitation
- to anyone.
-
- • At present PICTs are drawn directly to a window, not through a GWorld. This means
- that the PICT is not dithered nicely to the screen. I'll fix that soon enough.
-
- • I haven't yet written code to allow you to save a single frame or a set of frames
- as a PICT or set of PICTs. Afgain I'll do this soon enough.
-
- • I am aware of the sorta existence of MPEG support in QuickTime 2.0.
- However this support is aimed at dedicated MPEG cards. It's not clear to
- me that anything would be gained by writing up some sort of QT interface
- that pretended to be dedicated MPEG hardware, largely because I would
- now not have total control of the decoding process and so would not be
- able to run things at the maximum speed. A second problem was that, in
- the versions of QT I've tried so far, everything I tried with MPEG
- crashed pretty soon.
- When the final version of QT 2.0 comes along (which hopefully won't
- crash) I'll reconsider how I should change things to be as friendly as
- possible to QT 2.0.
-
- • Playback in doubled (or tripled or whatever) size windows is slow
- and (especially on 8 bit screens) low quality. This will be fixed in a
- later release.
-
- • The balloon help I use for the titlebar of movie windows also appears
- on the title bar of other windows (like the message window) where it
- doesn't make sense. This is because I used a very quick rough way of
- installing this help. I'll fix this at some point.