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- From: portuesi@tweezers.esd.sgi.com (Michael Portuesi)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: Making QT movies from single-frame Insight images
- Keywords: Quicktime Insight movies snapshot
- Message-ID: <op9mcs8@zola.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 17:38:33 GMT
- References: <1992Aug19.065725.22381@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au> <op902hc@zola.esd.sgi.com>
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc.
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- Just one small clarification to the recent message
- I posted regarding the Media Mosaic movie tools:
-
- In article <op902hc@zola.esd.sgi.com>, portuesi@tweezers.esd.sgi.com
- (Michael Portuesi) writes:
- |> Movieplayer plays back compressed digital movies, just
- |> like Apple's Quicktime movie format.
-
- These movies, however are *not* in Quicktime format. They
- are an SGI-specific format which will not be recognized by
- Quicktime applications on the Macintosh.
-
- SGI has licensed the Quicktime movie file format from
- Apple Computer. It seems pretty likely that we will be
- supporting Quicktime movies alongside our current file format
- in future releases, but I cannot make commitments about
- features and specifications of our future products. I only
- write software....
-
- m.
-
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- Michael Portuesi Silicon Graphics, Inc. portuesi@sgi.com
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