Re: Graphic formats IIgs can handle

[crownmi@zot.io.org (Myles Fudge)]

In article <4rgtnj$1vd@blackice.winternet.com>,
Nathan Mates <nathan@subzero.winternet.com> wrote:
>In article <4rfu0p$qal@zap.io.org>, Myles Fudge <crownmi@zap.io.org> wrote:
>>For example, is there a GS program that can display .AVI files?  
>   Maybe if it was decompressed and translated (a la FLIConvert) they

AHA!  :)

What (and where) is FLIConvert?  The only .FLI proggie I've come across 
is fliGS.

>compression wants] Further, almost all $C1 picture displayers want to
>be able to load the entire movie into ram and run it from there. Go
>past about 20-30 seconds and you've just exhausted a 4MB GS.

Yeah, that sucks.  The only exception to that norm that I can recall is 
the SHOW ME Finder Extra / NDA.  I believe that it will read and display
pics off your SCSI drive on the fly (of course with great sacrifice to
fps speed).

>   I'm not sure what all this brouhaha about watching movies on my
>computer screen is anyhow. About the only ones I've got are the
>digitized clips of efx from the Babylon 5 Screen Saver for Windoze.
>My VHS tapes of the episodes they took the clips from are higher
>quality, and contain the entire episode. Yes, I'd have to move the 20

Agreed, entirely!  Give me a break with all these watch-the-movie-on-
your-PC programs and vendors.  Sheesh.
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Myles Fudge  (crownmi@io.org)
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