Re: Apple IIGS TV commercial

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

Herbert Fung <mystix@direct.ca> wrote:

> In <370d6a07.25939347@news>, CUTjefbla@bconnex.net (Jeff Blakeney) writes:
> 
> >I have QT3 installed on my Windows 95 machine and it works great with
> >QT clips on the net except...
> [snip]
> >these commercials are all in StuffIt files.  Why?  QuickTime is an
> >already compressed format and if they were just standard QT files then
> 
> I unstuffed them with a Windows version of StuffIt and QuickTime still
> refuses to load them, stating that they were not QT files.
> 
> Are some QT files Mac only?

This is certainly possible.  QuickTime can store its control structures
in either the data or resource fork.

For a movie to be fully crossplatform, it has to be flattened, using an
option to put everything in the data fork.

You'll probably find that this has not been done with these particular
movies, and the StuffIt encoding was to retain the Mac resource fork.

Why is this being discussed in comp.sys.apple2, anyway?

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