Re: Movie format

[bak(-(at)-)isadora.albany.EDU (Brian A. Kell)]

>  Apple's Quicktime certainly seems like a candidate.  However, I have
 >  some questions for discussion:
 >
 >  -Are there any other formats already in use?  Widely used?  Widely
 >  implemented?
 I believe that the Amiga computer has a "movie" format that has been
 in use for some time by Amiga afficionados.  It's the same idea as
 QuickTime, but perhaps more rudimentary.  I don't remember what it's
 called.
 In regards to an earlier posting (I forget the author) which concerned
 a fear of "forcing" the Macintosh environment on someone by choosing
 the QuickTime standard, I would just like to point out that choosing a
 data format standard does not necessarily force the use of a
 particular hardware platform.  Notable examples in the personal
 computer world are PostScript and PICT (originally in the Macintosh,
 but now ubiquitous on MS-DOS, Windows, Unix, etc. platforms), and the
 GIF image format (developed by Compuserve, but now in widespread use).
 As I understand it, the QuickTime format is being made publically
 available, so it should be just as easy to write MS-DOS- or Unix-based
 QuickTime viewers as Macintosh ones.
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 Brian A. Kell       Biosym Technologies, Inc.       bak(-(at)-)biosym.com
 Disclaimer: The above comments are my own.
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