Re: Internet & the GS

[spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article "Dr. M" <mgruen@ambrosia.dfwmm.net> writes...

>What is available for the GS that allows for the downloading and viewing of 
>quicktime, .mov 

    Currently? Nothing (there is however a QuickTime player that is/was
being worked on by Mike Searl, though I've lost his e-mail address and
haven't been able to ask about its status. When I last spoke with him,
it supported non-compressed movies, though no sound. There was planned
support for the Second Sight card too, so color and possibly original 
resolution size without having to scale down would be supported).

>or other movie type formats with or without sound from the 
>internet?  I'd hope an accelerated GS is capable but something tells me 
>proriatary ownership and such has gotten in the way...

    They're not really movie formats, but a couple of looped animation
formats are supported. If you want to look at *.DL files, ViewDL will
handle that (if I recall right, version 2.0 supports the Second Sight).
Then for viewing *.FLI, there is FliGS for that format--as well as
SuperConvert but it only extracts the individual frames so it can be
converted into a native Apple format (e.g. PaintWorks animation).

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca