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- From: wrowe@reed.edu (Wayne S. Rowe)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Quicktime Filled In
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.022258.4341@reed.edu>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 02:22:58 GMT
- Article-I.D.: reed.1992Nov20.022258.4341
- Distribution: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Organization: Reed College, Portland, Oregon
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- Awhile ago I asked for some help with the basic workings of Quicktime, and more
- specifically with viewing the movies. For anyone else just now upgrading to a
- CPU that can handle Quicktime, what follows is a verbatim collection of the
- informative responses I received. Thanks to all who helped fill me in!
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- When I installed System 7.1 recently, it had a separate disk for Quicktime.
- After installing it correctly, the Scrapbook contained the two movies!
-
- According to your question, the answer is yes; you need a program which
- will _play_ quicktime movies. The quicktime extension only _allows_ you to
- play quicktime movies not view or play them.
- So what you need is the program that plays quicktime movies and there is a
- shareware one which you can get from ftp.apple.com under the directory (I
- think) dts/mac/quicktime/simple_player.hqx.
-
- You can also get movies from this archive site but the files are very large
- and a waste of time to download if you have less than a 14.4 baud modem.
- However, there are other movies which take less space and therefore less time
- to download. These files can be obtained from sumex-aim or archive.umich.edu
-
- You will also need some application that knows how to play a movie, or how to
- cut it into the clipboard (so it can go into the scrapbook). The canonical
- example is Simple Player, which is probably available on ftp somewhere. Also,
- just last night I noticed a bunch of stuff on the Developer CD from Apple that
- appears to both play and create movies.
-
- I think I got my original copy of Simple Player from the QuickTime 1.0
- diskimage on ftp.apple.com. QT 1.5 is about 800K, QT 1.0 is about 450K, so
- perhaps they just don't have room for the player on the disk anymore.
-
- In any event, the extension just provides the code to decode the movies and
- play them. It doesn't provide code to load a movie or buttons to play it. That
- is what Simple Player is for.
-
- There are also several PD/SW movie players on sumex & mac.
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