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Subject:    -4- What version of QuickTime does Silicon Graphics support?
Date: Thu Feb 16 15:37:32 PST 1995

  Silicon Graphics does not provide support for the QuickTime
  programming library, but only for the QuickTime file format.

  The definition of the QuickTime file format has not changed since its
  original release.  Apple's enhancements have mostly been in the form
  of performance improvements and new features to QuickTime which have
  not changed the basic file format.  So, in some sense SGI supports
  every version of QuickTime.  But to answer the question practically,
  we do not support every features which Apple has introduced in later
  releases of QuickTime, such as MIDI tracks in QuickTime files, the
  software syhthesizer, or QuickTime VR.

  SGI is working very hard to enhance its QuickTime support over time.
  In the WebFORCE software product for IRIX 5.3, SGI provides support
  for reading and writing QuickTime movies with Cinepak compression,
  as well as support for reading "non-flattened" movies which contain
  separate resource and data forks.  See elsewhere in this FAQ for
  information on ordering WebFORCE.

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