Re: .mov

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Sun, 6 Feb 2000 will [at] south-of-heaven.demon.co.uk wrote:

> > XAnim. Does most forms of QuickTime (notable exception: Sorensen Vision).
> 
> XAnim is just too slow. There are some othet QT players, and they are faster.
> Try www.freshmeat.net. (Universal answer :)

99% of the animators on freshmeat are XAnim based in my experience. XAnim
is also one the fastest programs out there - I don't know where you get
the idea that it's slow from? If you're having performance problems, make
sure a) you're running in the correct colour depth for that particular
movie, and b) it's running in an integer multiple of it's aspect ratios.
It's hard to imagine a program substantively faster than XAnim..

Besides, the only players that are non-XAnim based are, to the best of my
knowledge, based on the Quicktime For Linux library (which I myself use).
There's no particular problem with the library, save for the fact that
none of the quicktime files you'll ever some into contact with (i.e., off
the net, etc.) will play through it. As far as I know, there is no
competitor to XAnim for playing quicktime files - it can open more types
than any others, and is highly extensible. If you're using aKtion!, for
example, you're using XAnim. There are many extensions to XAnim: I've seen
XAnim bound to SVGAlib, the Lokisoft SDL, X/DDA, etc.. 

Cheers,

Alex.




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