Re: Quicktime

[mikew50@aol.com (MikeW50)]

In message <19970901002501.UAA18940@ladder02.news.aol.com>,
zippedgs@aol.com (ZippedGS) said:

>QuickTime uses a complex vector-quantization compression scheme, but a
>simple lookup-table decompression scheme. The problem however is that the
>throughput requirements may not be feasible on a GS. Does anyone have
>comments on how this could be done?

Just before the GS market crashed to a level that didn't support
commercial development, several people, including myself, were looking into
various video applications for the Apple IIGS. In fact, I did release a
Morph program with a movie player.

For QuickTime, in my opinion the most reasonable solution any of us came
up with was a program that could load and view QT movies, but not real
time. Instead, it would give various options for converting the movie to a
more GS-friendly format (e.g. no on-the-fly scaling or decompression).

Mike Westerfield