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Adrian Baldwin, Northern Software PLC

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Jul 5, 1994, 10:27:37 AM7/5/94
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I looked in the FAQ and couldn't find the answer to this (honest).

I am attempting to read PICT resources on a Sun and have been tols that they are 32-bit QuickTime compressed. I have tried to find the algorithm for this (Mac developer CD's etc) but with litle success.

It appears that on the Mac it is transparent to the programmers as the compression/decompression is taken care of 'behind the scenes'.

However as previously stated I need to be able to read them on a Sun Sparc.

Any offers/pointers would be gratefully recieved, either via e-mail direct or Posted replies.

Thans in advance.

Adrian Baldwin - Software Development - Monotype Systems Ltd

Bill Southworth

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Jul 12, 1994, 10:23:14 AM7/12/94
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You might try checking with APDA (the Apple Developer sales arm). Apple
sells a QuickTime Movie Exchange Toolkit with sources for $79.
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Hunter Scales

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Jul 14, 1994, 10:19:27 AM7/14/94
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adr...@monosys.com ("Adrian Baldwin, Northern Software PLC") writes:


>I looked in the FAQ and couldn't find the answer to this (honest).

>I am attempting to read PICT resources on a Sun and have been tols that they are 32-bit QuickTime compressed. I have tried to find the algorithm for this (Mac developer CD's etc) but with litle success.

>It appears that on the Mac it is transparent to the programmers as the compression/decompression is taken care of 'behind the scenes'.

>However as previously stated I need to be able to read them on a Sun Sparc.

>Any offers/pointers would be gratefully recieved, either via e-mail direct or Posted replies.

Check out xanim2.68. It has support for some of the codecs used
with Quicktime. It can be found at most X archives e.g. ftp.x.org
under the contrib directory. Below is an excerpt from xanim.readme:

+ Quicktime Animations. The following features are
supported:
-> Uncompressed (RAW ) depth 8.
-> Apple Graphics (RLE ) depth 1,8,16 and 24.
-> Apple Animation (SMC ) depth 8.
-> Apple Video (RPZA) depth 16.
-> SuperMac Cinepak (CVID) depth 24.
-> Supports multiple video trak's.
-> Supports animations with multiple codecs.
-> Supports flattened anims
-> Supports separate .rsrc and .data forks.

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