Cross-platform QuickTime

News!

• Macintosh: QuickTime 2.1 and MoviePlayer 2.1
  (and Sound Manager 3.1 (Native!))

• Windows: QuickTime for Windows

General Interest

• A test page with "flattened" (cross-platform) QuickTime movies, and some MPEGs created from those movies (with Sparkle) for comparison.

• QuickTime FAQ

• Apple's QuickTime Continuum

• MIDI, thanks to QuickTime 2

• QuickTime Programming (from Apple Developer Technical Support)

Windows

• Windows: QuickTime for Windows

• SmartVid, converts between AVI and QuickTime formats (Readme)

X Windows System

• Xanim: An X-Windows animation viewer, including support for QuickTime movies (sound support is currently in beta testing).

Macintosh

• The Basics: QuickTime 2.1 and MoviePlayer 2.1

• Flattmoov, a small Macintosh program to "flatten" QuickTime movies so they are playable on non-Macintosh platforms. (BinHex encoded.)

• Video For Windows is a Macintosh program/extension combination that will convert AVI files to QuickTime movies (and vice-versa?).

• Movie2Snd: extracts QuickTime movie soundtracks as System 7 sounds

• All Midi, converts general MIDI files to QuickTime music movies.

Miscellaneous

• If you must go with MPEGs, Sparkle 2 (Mac; now PPC native) can also convert QuickTime movies into MPEG movies, and vice-versa. (Requires Sound Manager 3.1 on PowerMacs)
  (Works best with Thread Manager; built into System 7.5.)

September 12, 1995 - Robert Lentz (ralentz@ralentz.com)