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Victor Vargas G. (fulldog@tag01.acnet.net) wrote:
: XAnim >does< allow an AGA amiga to run QuickTime files. I've found it to

...but not very well.  It won't play even video-only at full speed, and
forget even trying to get the audio and video at the same time.  :-(
This is on my A3000 with 25MHz '040, 12MB fast RAM, and the Spectrum graphics
card.   I know for fact that the hardware is not the limitation, since under
EMPLANT Mac, the same QuickTime movie runs perfectly off my CDROM, 
with both sound and video at full frame rate,  so obviously,
the limitation is in the software.  The problem with XAnim is that it's written
for the X Window system, which generaly runs on much higher spec machines than
the Amiga, and therefore the animations run at full speed on these systems 
by the virtue of brute force.  

What's needed is  an Amiga specific codec for QT, perhaps in a datatype, one
that would be written with Amiga in mind, using Amiga OS calls.

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