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Re: Quicktime






On Tue, 24 Oct 1995 jered@MIT.EDU wrote:

> > With regards to QuickTime, I recall that there was one free animation file
> > viewer available for X11 that supported playing QuickTime movies.
> > 
> > Apple complained that they were violating a patent or something - So the
> > authors had to REMOVE the quicktime support from their application!
> 
> I haven't heard that story before (although I wouldn't put Apple past it).
> However, XAnim can play .MOV files just fine.  The current beta versions
> are great, they'll play MPEG, QuickTime, MS .AVI, and several other formats
> with sound, and on all bit depth displays. Sorry, I don't know the URL for
> XAnim.

Actually, you're right - I checked and it wasn't quicktime in general, it 
was the Radius Cinepak encoded AVI and Quicktime files.  Sorry Apple.

Maybe in Executor 3.0 there could be integration with XAnim somehow.

> 
> Apple's latest scam, 'Apple Notebook Disks.'  You pay $4 extra per box to
> get 3.5" floppies that are 'precision-crafted to Apple factory specifications.'
> Sigh.

The next step is to have 'your notebook warrenty is void if you don't use 
our expensive disks'

jeff
 
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