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Availability
of some important CD-ROM Codecs for Apple's QuickTime 3 und Microsoft's
DirectShow.
Published
in Screen Multimedia 1/99
(1) Director 7: using
QuickTime Asset Xtra (PPC only). Director 6 and 6.5: using Import
command (also 68K Macs) or QuickTime Asset Xtra (PPC only)
(2) Director 6 only,
Import command
(3) Director 6.5 and
7: using QuickTime Asset Xtra (32 bit plattforms only)
* Playback-Codec is
not part of the QT standard installation.
Playback-Codec is not part of the DirectShow standard installation.
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QuickTime
in Director. Options
for different distribution platforms.
| platform |
distributable
QT version (9/99)
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useage
in Director 6.5
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useage
in
Director 7
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| MacOS 68 K |
4
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Import command*,
QT4 features supported in-part
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platform not
supported
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| MacOS
PPC |
4
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Import command*,
QT4 features supported in-part
or: QT3
Asset Xtra
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QT3 Asset Xtra
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| Windows 3.1 |
2.12
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Import command*,
QT2 content
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platform not supported
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| Windows
95,98,NT |
4
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QT3 Asset Xtra
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QT3 Asset Xtra
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*
"Import command" means that Director's own import function
is to be used. In Director 6.5, this is different from "Insert"ing
the Video with the QT3 Asset Xtra.
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Codecs
available in QuickTime 4 and Windows technologies.
From: Director 7 Workshop.
•
useable and contained
in standard installation
(1) useable, but not contained in standard installation
(2)useable, if •
is useable (Windows
Media uses DirectShow, DirectShow uses VfW) |
| Developer |
Codec |
QT
3, 4
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VfW
1.1
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Direct-Show
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Windows
Media
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| Compression
technologies |
Cinepak
CinePak Pro (better encoding) |
•
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•
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•
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•
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| Intel |
Indeo
3.2 |
(1)
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•
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(2)
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(2)
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| Intel |
IVI 4.4 |
Mac:
(1)
Win: •
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(1)
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(2)
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(2)
•
(2.0 only)
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| Intel |
IVI
5.0 |
(1)
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(1)
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(2)
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(2)
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| Sorensen
Vision |
Sorensen
Video |
•
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-
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-
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-
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| Eidos
Technologies |
Eidos
Escape 2.1 |
(1)
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(1)
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(2)
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(2)
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| The
Duck Corporation |
True Motion
2.0 |
(1)
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-
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(1)
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•
(2.0, 3.0)
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| Apple |
Apple
Video (testing: fast, poor image quality) |
•
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-
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-
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-
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| MPEG Consortium |
MPEG 1 |
Mac:
•
Win:
-
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-
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•
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(2)
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| MPEG Consortium |
MPEG 2 |
-
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-
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•
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(2)
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| MPEG Consortium |
MPEG 4
(Web video) |
-
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-
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-
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•
(2.0, 3.0)
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| Apple |
Apple
Animation (testing and animation, all colordepths), lossless |
•
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-
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-
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-
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| Apple |
Apple
Graphics (testing and animation, all colordepths), lossless |
•
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-
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-
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-
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| Microsoft |
Video
(Testing: fast, poor image quality) |
-
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•
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(2)
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(2)
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| Microsoft |
RLE (Run
Length Encoding; testing: poor compression) |
-
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•
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(2)
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(2)
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| ? |
MJPEG
(capturing, editing, near lossless) |
•
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(1)
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•
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(2)
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