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- Sparkle 2.3.0 A mac-look-and-feel MPEG and QT player and converter.
-
- This should replace Sparkle 2.2.3 in the info-mac archives.
- Changes are:
- * A serious bug in 2.2.2/2.2.3 broke MPEG encoding. Now fixed.
- * All encoding now done based on time, not frame number. See
- ``ReadMe New Timing'' for details.
- * Sound is now partially supported. See ``ReadMe Sound'' for details.
- * Misc bugs and tweaks.
-
- Also in this package are a VERY rough quick and dirty port of some unix
- MPEG-2 decoding code. This will allow you to see what's in an MPEG2 file
- and save the result as a QT movie. Of course at some point this support
- will be rolled into Sparkle but I'd like to do sound first.
- Be patient with this programs---in particular when it starts up, it
- may sit for a minute or so looking like it's frozen before anything
- starts happening. This program is based on code by Chad Fogg and the
- MPEG Software Simulation Group.
-
- Also in this package is a VERY rough quick and dirty port of a
- unix MPEG demuxer. This will split a muxed MPEG file (one containing
- both audio and video) into separate audio and video files. This program
- is based on code by Rainer Menes.
-
- This version of Sparkle
- * has very limited AppleScript support. Probably not yet useful, but
- that'll change soon.
- * does not support online help
- These are all high priorities, pretty much in that order.
-
-
- WHAT IS IT?
- Sparkle plays MPEGs, PICTs and QT movies and converts between them. It is
- multifinder friendly and, with enough memory, will open multiple
- documents at once.
- It is free.
-
- REQUIRES:
- System 7 or greater.
- QuickTime 1.6 or greater.
- Sound Manager 3.0 or greater.
- An 020 based mac or greater.
- Works much better with SCSI Manager 4.3 installed.
- Thread Manager.2.0
- (Why don't you just buy System 7.5 and be done with it?)
- This program on PowerMac requires ObjectSupportLib. Read the enclosed
- file if you don't have it to learn how to get it.
-
- You can ftp Sparkle from sumex-aim.stanford.edu (or a mirror like
- mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu) in info-mac/grf/util.
- You can ftp the Thread Manager from ftp.apple.com in
- dts/mac/sys.soft/extensions/Thread_manager_201.hqx
-
- Maynard Handley
- maynard@elwing.otago.ac.nz
- December 20 1994
-