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From: wwarner@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Art Warner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: Re: CDTV Motion Video
Message-ID: <1991Jun10.215422.27226@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 10 Jun 91 21:54:22 GMT
References: <30764@hydra.gatech.EDU> <1991Jun7.025704.21505@watserv1.waterloo.edu> <13967@goofy.Apple.COM>
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In article <13967@goofy.Apple.COM> lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein) writes:
>In article <1991Jun7.025704.21505@watserv1.waterloo.edu> tcapener@watserv1.waterloo.edu (CAPENER TD - ENGLISH ) writes:
>>
>>Actually, to be fair (fair?  who said we had to be fair?)  Apple's 24 minutes
>>of video is full screen and at 30 frames per second.  Still, Apple's video
>>requires a multiple-thousands-of-dollars video board while Commodore's video
>
>This sounds like a demo of Apple's 8*24GC graphics accelerator board, which
>is expensive but provides significant graphics performance.
>
>What's more interesting is the recently-announced QuickTime, which provides
>something more like what you described for the CDTV.  (Small-size display,
>full-motion, 15 frames per second, more compression.)

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>
>Any Mac II with just the QuickTime software can play back these movies with
>no extra hardware.  My understanding is that the QuickTime architecture does
>support hardware accelerators, which are transparent to the application
>software.  QuickTime also provides support for copy/paste of movies from one
>app to another, still image compression (ie JPEG), among other things.
>
>-- 
>Larry Rosenstein, Apple Computer, Inc.
>
>lsr@apple.com
>(or AppleLink: Rosenstein1)

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