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In <1992Aug3.170846.9823@waikato.ac.nz> Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University writes:
>Sounds like you've got something similar to the idea in Apple's QuickTime of
>custom media handlers (admittedly not fully developed in QuickTime 1.0). Do
>you have anything resembling the QuickTime movie format, which allows you
>to distribute canned presentations that can be controlled through a standard
>player interface?

All the video support will be available at the MCI interface.
I don't have any more information on the up-coming software-compressed
video.

>Will your digital video support be tied to DVI compression, or will you
>allow alternative hardware/software compression algorithms to be plugged in,
>a la QuickTime? Also, will there be a standard API for video capture that
>other card vendors can support?

The MCI interface will allow the app to go with DVI, software compressed,
or whatever. Since the architecture is extensible, the same MCI interface
could be supported by different media drivers (different cards).

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