SGI movie Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

• Introduction
• -1- Is there a QuickTime movieplayer available for SGI?
• -2- I cannot play a QuickTime movie on my Silicon Graphics computer. How can I make it work?
• -3- I cannot play a QuickTime movie created on a Silicon Graphics computer on my Macintosh. How can I make it work?
• -4- What version of QuickTime does Silicon Graphics support?
• -5- How can I create a QuickTime file on an SGI?
• -6- I need to play MPEG movies. Does SGI offer MPEG support?
• -7- I created a movie with Capture, but now I can't edit it with Movie Maker or play it with Movie Player.
• -8- How can I write a program to create, edit, convert, or play movies? Where can I get a copy of the SGI Movie Library?
• -9- I can't use images exported with Moviemaker in any of my applications. What image format does Moviemaker use?
• -10- Can anyone provide details on the SGI movie format?
• -11- Can anyone provide details on the QuickTime movie format?
• -12- How can I convert from SGI movie format to MPEG?
• -13- What is the WebFORCE software product? What does it do? How can I order it?
• -14- How can I convert from Microsoft AVI movie format to SGI movie format?
• -15- Is there a way to bring up a movie (using movieplayer) within Showcase using a button click...and having it place itself automatically in a certain location and start?
• -16- I am using Mosaic. When I try to view a movie, movieplayer starts, but then shows a message: no movie. How can I make it work?
• -17- I have the Galileo (or Indy Video) option, but I can't get Capture to use it. When I run it, the IndyCam shows up. What do I do?
• -18- I cannot get the right video to show in the Capture tool! I get a video source other than the one I want or the screen is black. What do I do?
• -19- Why does Capture tell me to "Please Stand By", instead of capturing video?
• -20- Capture just grabbed a file for me, but now I can't find it. Where did Capture hide it?
• -21- Under IRIX 5.3, my system has a video board and/or IndyCam, but Capture won't let me use it. It just greys out the video options on its menu. How can I make it work?
• -22- I created a movie with audio using makemovie, but the soundtrack plays back really garbled and choppy. What do I do?
• -23- Does anyone know the maximum size a movie file that MovieMaker or MoviePlayer can handle? Is it limited by free memory, or will it play from the hard drive?
• -24- How do I write a program to access the pixels of a video frame in a movie file for image processing purposes?
• -25- How do I write a program which can write individual frames from a movie file out to a still image file?
• -26- I'm using the Movie Library to create QuickTime movies using Apple's Video compression. When are default key- frames placed in a QuickTime movie made with the SGI movie library?
• -27- The Movie Library has calls to play a movie in a file, memory or a file descriptor. But all of them seem to assume that the complete movie is available locally. How can I play a movie all of which is not available locally?
• -28- When programming with the Movie Library, can we insert and delete frames from a playing movie?
• -29- When writing frames to a movie with the Movie Library, if we fix the image track parameters, does the byte size of the frame remain constant across frames?
• -30- How do I write a program to play a movie entirely from memory?
• -31- How do I capture movies from live video within my application?
• -32- How do I write a program to read and write compressed data to a movie file?
• -33- I want to write a program which creates a JPEG- compressed movie file, but I need to control the compression quality. How do I do this with the Movie Library?
• -34- I want to write a program which can create a JPEG- compressed movie file compatible with the Cosmo Compress board, SGI's hardware JPEG accelerator. How do I do this?
• -35- I simply want to create a JPEG-compressed movie which is compatible with the Cosmo Compress board. I don't want to write my own program. How do I do this?