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- From: ehrenfried@gwdgv1.gwdg.de (Klaus Ehrenfried)
- Subject: re: fli files or a working xflick?
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- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 19:30:43 GMT
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- In article <BxAzFy.98q@news.udel.edu> Squish writes:
- > I snagged the most recent version of xflick I could find and some FLI files
- > from Europe. The FLI files were lharced and zipped so I figured they most
- > likely came off a PC. Anyways, when I try to view them using xflick on a
- > Sun unix box I get "machine.fli, not a .fli file." But, when I try to view
- > it on a PC it works fine. Is there some problem with xflick? the fli file?
- > Or viewing fli files generated on a Dos machine using a Unix box? Any ideas?
- > Could someone point me in the right direction of WORKING fli files on a UNIX
- > machine so that I can test to make sure my copy of xflick is working? Thanks!
- >
- > - mike
-
- The problem is that the present version of xflick doesn't support the new
- standard of fli files. Most newer fli animations use this standard which
- allows higer resolution. All details regarding the format
- are explained in the article <1992Sep26.000550.94@htsmm1.Las-Vegas.NV.US>
- which was posted from Mike Haaland erlier to this group.
- Because I was also interested to play these newer fli animations on
- a sun workstation I made some extensions to the xflick source using the
- description from Mike Haaland. I only added the handling of so called
- FLI_DELTA chunks and FLI_256_COLOR chunks and made the program to
- recognize the new magic number. I didn't implement the third new chunk
- type mentioned by Haaland (FLI_MINI). Up to now I had no problems with
- this and all my examples play well. The only problem is if you use
- higer resolution and more pixels (e.g. 800x600) you should have a fast
- graphic and X-server.
-
- I don't know if other people have already done any extensions of xflick, but
- if somebody is interested in the program with my extensions I can post it.
- Probably I should upload it somewere, but I don't know a good ftp server
- for fli-related stuff. Any ideas....
-
- -- Klaus Ehrenfried
-