Subject: Re: Quicktime
From: supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)
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Date: 1 May 1999 04:14:18 GMT
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wbdesnoy@acs2.acs.ucalgary.ca (Byron Desnoyers Winmill) wrote:

>Richard Lyall (backbacon@NOSPAMhotmail.com) wrote:
>: Dear All ...
>
>: Is there a newsgroup specific to Quicktime and other Apple Multimedia
>: products?
>
>Try the comp.sys.mac hierarchy.  I'm afraid to say that Apple's Apple II
>series of computers are a tad underpowered for such multimedia applications
>as Quicktime.

Well, actually, the IIGS can certainly do multimedia.  Some people have
converted Quicktime video into IIGS formats.  The IIGS can even play
video with sound as the following URL will attest (you can download the
actual video as several binscii files in the same directory as this text
file):

http://ground.ecn.uiowa.edu/apple2/upl98/Dec98/Su27.txt

It is not the multimedia that is IIGS unfriendly, but the compression.
Thus, it is necessarily to convert the multimedia first before playing on
the IIGS.  Note: the IIGS formats are compressed too, it is just that the
compression is not as aggressive.