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- Sparkle 2.4.5 A mac-look-and-feel MPEG and QT player and converter.
-
- This should replace Sparkle 2.4.3 in the info-mac archives.
- * Bug fixes
- * Supports QT-style dithering.
- !!!
- On a PowerPC Sparkle 2.4.5 REQUIRES Sound Manager 3.1 which you can
- obtain from
- <ftp://ftp.support.apple.com//pub/apple_sw_updates/US/mac/
- System Software/Other System Software/Sound_Manager_3.1.hqx>
- On a 68K system you do not need SoundManager 3.1 but without it you
- won't be able to use .WAV or IMA sound files.
-
- Also in this package are a VERY rough quick and dirty port of some unix
- MPEG-2 decoding code. This will allow you to see what's in an MPEG2 file
- and save the result as a QT movie. Of course at some point this support
- will be rolled into Sparkle but I'd like to do sound first.
- Be patient with this programs---in particular when it starts up, it
- may sit for a minute or so looking like it's frozen before anything
- starts happening. This program is based on code by Chad Fogg and the
- MPEG Software Simulation Group.
-
- Also in this package is a VERY rough quick and dirty port of a
- unix MPEG demuxer. This will split a muxed MPEG file (one containing
- both audio and video) into separate audio and video files. This program
- is based on code by Rainer Menes.
-
- This version of Sparkle
- * has very limited AppleScript support. Probably not yet useful, but
- that'll change soon.
- * does not support online help
- These are all high priorities, pretty much in that order.
-
-
- WHAT IS IT?
- Sparkle plays MPEGs, PICTs and QT movies and converts between them. It is
- multifinder friendly and, with enough memory, will open multiple
- documents at once.
- It is free.
-
- REQUIRES:
- Sparkle is no longer supported on systems less that 7.5. If you refuse
- to upgrade to 7.5, the enclosed docs will tell you the list of
- extensions you need to get for Sporkle to work, but I do not have
- time to help you track these down.
-
- Maynard Handley
- maynardh@apple.com
- July 24 1994
-