Subject:    -2- I cannot play a QuickTime movie on my Silicon Graphics
                computer. How can I make it work?
Date: Thu Feb 16 15:37:32 PST 1995

  Here is a checklist of things to try:

  - You should be using the 5.1 MR version of the OS or later.

  - The QT movie must be "flattened".  Use the Apple Movie Converter
    program and choose BOTH "Make playable on non-Apple systems" and
    "Make self-contained" in the Save As dialog.  The file must
    also be compressed with an algorithm we support.  For example,
    do not choose "Cinepak" or "Compact Video".

  - Try changing the compression to something else, say "none" to see
    if that may be the problem.

  SGI has licensed the QuickTime movie file format and three compressors
  from Apple.  In IRIX releases 5.1 through 5.3, you can display
  QuickTime movies compressed with the RLE or RPZA algorithms
  (Apple Graphics and Apple Video) with the bundled SGI movieplayer.

  If you have IRIX 5.3, you can purchase the optional WebFORCE software
  product.  This will allow you to create and view QuickTime movies
  using Cinepak compression, and it can also read QuickTime movies on
  Macintosh filesystems which have not been "flattened".  See elsewhere
  in this FAQ for information on ordering WebFORCE.

  Finally, the SGI movie tools currently do not support QuickTime
  movies which contain an edit list.

  Typically, a QuickTime file on the Macintosh stores all of the movie
  parameters and header information in the resource fork, and the
  actual media (sound + video) in the data fork.  To be used on a
  computer which has a conventional file system (such as the Indigo),
  you must first "flatten" the movie on the Macintosh before
  transferring it to the Indigo.  This is what the "Make playable on
  non-Apple systems" option in the Apple Movie Converter does.

  The Apple Movie Converter is part of the QuickTime Starter Kit, a
  software package sold by Apple Computer for Macintosh systems.  It is
  available from retail software distributors.