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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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