Sparkle

• Version: 2.4
• Author: Maynard Handley
• Requirements: System 7.5, QuickTime
• Cost: free
• Pros: mulit-format aware, many playback options, converts MPEG and QuickTime movies
• Cons: not the best PICT viewer
• Remote location: <URL:ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Mosaic/Mac/Helpers/sparkle-24.hqx>
• Tricks location: <URL:http://152.1.24.177/teaching/archives/sparkle-24.hqx>

Sparkle is a mulit-format, multimedia player. It can play QuickTime movies as well as MPEG movies or display PICT files. (MPEG movies represent a growing de-facto standard for multimedia files.) While it can not save files as "flattened" movies like Fast Player, it can save QuickTime movies as MPEG movies. Sparkle has more options for playing movies like backwards, back and forth, and various speeds. It also contains a number of options for image quality not found in the other movie players.

MIME type: video/quicktime
Filename extensions: .qt or .mov

MIME type: video/mpeg
Filename extensions: .mpg, .mpeg., or .mpe

MIME type: image/pict
Filename extensions: .pic, .pict

Eric last edited this page on September 26, 1995. Please feel free to send comments.