Re: Quicktime

[zippedgs@aol.com (ZippedGS)]

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? I know it would require an accelerated
GS to get decent playback rates. The other problem is that many QuickTime
movies are in 256, thousands, millions of colors, a feat the GS cannot
handle, unless a Second Sight board is installed, and I don't believe
anybody here wants to wait for a 256/1000/1000000 bit depth change to 16 or
256 multi-palette colors on a GS in 1000+ frame movies. If you want
QuickTime, get a Mac. I own many Macs and a few GSes, they work great together.

-Auri (auri@woz.org)