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In article <C1ID2C.AL4@wm.estec.esa.nl> guy@wmsg02.wm.estec.esa.nl (Guy Brooker) writes:
>The help and information given through comp.sys.sgi by all the sgi people is 
>quite magnificent, and highly praiseworthy. We love you all! Isn't that right!

I agree 100 percent.

>Excuse me, but wasn't it SGI who made a big fanfare about porting QuickTime 
>onto their platform last year, getting thier name in the news of a number of 
>respected industry journals... Since that 'pre-announcement' everything 
>appears to have gone silent. 

This is very common in the industry as a whole.  There have been a large
number of multimedia annoucements, proposals, contracts, etc. bandied about
not only by SGI but lots of other companies.  I would like to see most of 
these competing formats disappear.  The format I prefer is CDI from Philips,
but for mostly political reasons I expect it will fail, likewise I expect
Quicktime to fail for similar reasons.  Whatever does succeed will be
encodeable onto CD-ROM, is compatible with Photo CD, supports full motion
video, and has at a minimum of NTSC and PAL output (SECAM, and both 60HZ and
50HZ HDTV being desired additional outputs).

Until a clear leader emerges from the multimedia swamp I have decided to
standardize on Quicktime.  Right now if I want to play a Quicktime movie, it 
has to be on a Mac.  This is not such a bad thing.  We have the Quicktime 
Movie Exchange toolkit installed on our IRIS and we can shove stuff into it, 
and we get Quicktime movies out that we can transfer to our Macs for display.  
My only wish is that it was Version 1.5 instead of 1.0.  This toolkit is sold 
by Apple in source code form (you need to supply a C++ compiler).

>Lets hope that the (quick)time is nigh !

Something to also consider is SGI's viewpoint on paying royalties to Apple
when they have their own movie format.  I really don't care whether it is
CDI, Quicktime, PREMO (the proposed ISO new work item), DVI, Ultimedia, MPC,
VIS, IMA's proposal, CDTV, ect. as long as I can play it on any reasonable
computer (it has a display, audio, and a mouse equivalent) and can be down
loaded to a CD-ROM for playback on something like a Philips CDI 360.

B Cing U

Buck

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