Supported Data Formats
Supported Data Formats
This chart shows from which QuickTime version the data types are supported and whether XAnim
supports them.
NOTE: XAnim is a UNIX-based player only and it's info is only provided as a very rough reference.
There is also an ASCII-styled version of this chart.
| Supported QuickTime Read in Formats | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Developer | Windows | Mac | Unix | Suffix(s) | |
| 32-bit | 16-bit | |||||
| Still Image Formats | ||||||
| 3D Meta File | Apple | 3.0 | N/A | 2.5 | N/A | N/A |
| FlashPix | Macromedia | 4.0 | 4.0 | fpx,fpix | ||
| Graphics Interchange Format |
Compuserve | 3.0 | 2.5 | XAnim | gif | |
| JPEG File Interchange Format |
C-Cube Microsystems/ Joint Photographic Experts Group |
jfif,jpg,jpeg,jpe | ||||
| MacPaint | Apple/Claris | N/A | pntg,pnt,mac | |||
| Photoshop | Adobe | psd | ||||
| Portable Network Graphics |
W3 Consortium | 3.0 | png | |||
| QuickDraw Picture | Apple | All | pict,pic,pct | |||
| QuickTime Image Format |
Apple | 2.5 | qti | |||
| Silicon Graphics Image |
Silicon Graphics | sgi,rgb | ||||
| Targa | TrueVision | 3.0 | targa,tga | |||
| Tagged Image File Format |
Aldus/Adobe | tiff,tif | ||||
| Windows BitMaP | Microsoft | Internal | Internal | bmp | ||
| Audio Formats | ||||||
| Audio Interchange
File Format |
Apple | All | All | All | Unknown | aif,aiff,aifc |
| Global System for
Mobile Audio |
ETSI | 5.0 | N/A | 5.0 | XAnim | gsm,gsd |
| MPEG-1 Audio/ ISO/IEC 11172-3 (Layers I/II) |
Motion Picture
Experts Group |
5.0 | N/A | 2.0PPC | N/A | m1a,mpa,mp2, mpeg,mpg,mpm |
| MPEG-2 Audio/ ISO/IEC 13818-3 (Layers I/II) |
Add-on | Add-on | m2a,mpa,mp2, mpeg,mpg,mpm |
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| MPEG Audio (with ID3 for Layer III) |
4.0 | 4.0PPC | mp3,mpeg,mpg | |||
| Musical Instrument
Digitial Interface |
Roland/Yamaha | 3.0 | 2.0 | 2.0 | midi,mid,rmi,smf,kar | |
| QuickTime Audio | Apple | All | All | All | XAnim | mov,qt |
| QualCommPurevoice | Qualcomm | 3.0 | N/A | 3.0 | N/A | qcp |
| RIFF Waveform | Microsoft | Internal | Internal | 2.0 | XAnim | wav |
| Sound Designer 2 | Digidesign | 3.0 | N/A | 3.0 | N/A | sd2 |
| ULAW | Sun/NeXT | 2.0 | 2.0 | XAnim | au,snd,ulw | |
| Video Formats | ||||||
| Animated Graphics
Interchange Format |
Compuserve | 3.0 | N/A | 3.0 | XAnim | gif |
| AutoDesk Animator | AutoDesk | flc,fli | ||||
| DigitalVideo Stream | Digital VCR Conference |
N/A | dv,dif | |||
| Shockwave Flash 3 | Macromedia | 4.0 | 4.0 | swf | ||
| Shockwave Flash 4 | 5.0 | 5.0 | ||||
| Shockwave Flash 5 | 6.0 | 6.0 | ||||
| MPEG-1 System/ ISO/IEC 11172-1 |
Motion Picture
Experts Group |
5.0 | 2.0PPC | mpeg,mpg,dat,m1s, mpgx,mpm,rtf |
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| MPEG-2 System/ ISO/IEC 13818-1 |
Add-on | Add-on | mpeg,mpg,m2s | |||
| MPEG-4 System/ ISO/IEC 14496-1 |
6.0 | 6.0 | m4s,mp4,mpg4 | |||
| MPEG-1 Video/ ISO/IEC 11172-2 |
5.0 | 2.0PPC | XAnim | mpeg,mpg,mpv, m1v,m75,m15 |
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| MPEG-2 Video/ ISO/IEC 13818-2 |
Add-on | Add-on | N/A | mpeg,mpg,m2v | ||
| QuickDraw Picture Sequence |
Apple | All | All | All | XAnim | pics |
| QuickTime Video | mov,qt | |||||
| RIFF Audio Video Interleave |
Microsoft | Internal | Internal | 3.0 | XAnim | avi,vfw |
| Text Formats | ||||||
| Hyper Text Markup Lanuage Importer |
W3 Consortium | 4.0 | N/A | 4.0 | N/A | (Import only) |
| QuickTime PreFlight Text Importer |
Apple | 5.0 | 5.0 | |||
| Real Time Streaming Protocol |
4.0 | 4.0 | rtsp,rtp,mov | |||
| Session Description Protocol |
sdp,mov | |||||
| ShoutCast PlayLiSt | Nullsoft | 5.0 | 5.0 | pls | ||
| Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language |
W3 Consortium | 4.1 | 4.1PPC | smil,sml,smi,mov | ||
| Text Importer | Apple | 3.0 | 2.0 | 1.5 | txt,mov | |
Need more info on these and other Audio formats, check out Norman Franke's
SoundApp
Formats Page.
Also check out the CODECs[1] at Terran Interactive's
Codec Central, the above Video and Audio
formats may support and/or need.
Since Video/Audio data in WAVEs, AIFFs, AVIs and MOVs can be compressed by any 3rd party
codec(eg. Intel's Indeo, Eidos' Escape, etc), they need to be installed separately.
For a complete list of image/audio codecs check out the
Image and Audio
component lists.
1 - COmpressor/DECompressor or enCOder/DECoder
| Supported QuickTime Codecs | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Type | QT type code |
Windows | Mac | Unix | Purpose/Notes | |
| 32-bit | 16-bit | |||||
| Audio Encoders/Decoders | ||||||
| Two's Complement - Big Endian PCM |
'twos' | Internal | Internal | Internal | XAnim | 8 & 16-bit 68k signed samples |
| Two's Complement - Little Endian PCM |
'sowt' | 8 & 16-bit x86 signed samples |
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| 24-bit Integer PCM | 'in24' | 3.0 | N/A | 2.5 | Unknown | Increasing samples beyond 16-bits |
| 32-bit Floating Point PCM | 'fl32' | |||||
| 32-bit Integer PCM | 'in32' | |||||
| 64-bit Floating Point PCM | 'fl64' | |||||
| A-Law 2:1 | 'alaw' | Internal | Internal | 3.0 | XAnim | 16 bit samples only |
| Apple GSM 10:1 | 'agsm' | 4.0 | N/A | 4.0 | Decoder only | |
| Digital Video audio | 'dvca' | 3.0 | 3.0 | N/A | ||
| DVI IMA ADPCM 4:1 | 'dvi ' | 4.0 | 4.0 | Streaming Decoder only |
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| Linear Predictive
Coding 23:1 |
'lpc ' | 3.0 | 3.0 | Voice decoder only | ||
| Apple Interactive Multimedia Association 4:1 |
'ima4' | Internal | Internal | 2.0 | XAnim | 16-bit samples only |
| MS IMA ADPCM 4:1 | 'ms$0002' | 3.0 | Microsoft's version of IMA for Waveform files |
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| DVI IMA ADPCM 4:1 | 'ms$0011' | Intel's version of IMA for Waveform files |
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| MPEG-4 Advanced Audio Coding/ ISO/IEC 14496-3 AAC |
'mp4a' | 6.0 | N/A | 6.0 | N/A | Proprietary Replacement for MPEG layer III |
| MPEG Layer III Fixed Rate | 'ms$0055' | Internal | 4.0 | Fraunhofer's low bps MPEG CBR layer III decoder |
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| MPEG Layer III (with Xing VBR header) |
'.mp3' | 4.1 | 4.1 | Fraunhofer's full VBR MPEG layer III decoder |
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| Macintosh Audio
Compression & Expansion 3:1 |
'MAC3' | All | All | Internal | 8-bit samples only | |
| Macintosh Audio
Compression & Expansion 6:1 |
'MAC6' | |||||
| Pulse Code Modulation 8-bit Offset Linear |
'raw ' | Internal | Internal | XAnim | 8-bit unsigned samples | |
| QDesign Music 1 | 'QDMC' | 3.0 | N/A | 3.0 | N/A | 16-bit samples only |
| QDesign Music 2 | 'QDM2' | 4.0 | 4.0 | |||
| Qualcomm Purevoice(TM) | 'Qclp' | 3.0 | 3.0 | |||
| (mu)-Law 2:1 | 'ulaw' | Internal | Internal | 2.0 | XAnim | |
| Image or Key/Intra Frame Only Video Encoders/Decoders | ||||||
| Apple BMP/MS RLE (RGB) | 'WRLE' | 3.0 | N/A | 3.0 | N/A | Used in Windows Bitmaps |
| Component Video (YUV) | 'yuv2' | 2.0 | 1.5 | XAnim | Uses unsigned Y'CbCr 4:2:2 color space |
|
| Component Video - YUV | ||||||
| DV - NTSC (YUV) | 'dvc ' | N/A | 3.0 | N/A | Standard for DV/FireWire |
|
| DV - PAL (YUV) | 'dvcp' | |||||
| DV Pro - NTSC (YUV) | 'dvpn' | 4.0 | 4.0 | Pro Standard for DV/FireWire |
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| DV Pro - PAL (YUV) | 'dvpp' | 6.0 | 6.0 | |||
| Motion JPEG A (YUV) | 'mjpa' | 3.0 | 2.5 | XAnim | Used for Video Capturing from M-JPEG cards |
|
| Motion JPEG B (YUV) | 'mjpb' | N/A | ||||
| None/Plain RGB | 'raw ' | 2.0 | All | XAnim | Direct to video raw pixel map | |
| Photo - JPEG/JFIF (YUV) | 'jpeg' | 1.5 | Best for Still Images |
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| Planar RGB/Photoshop | '8BPS' | N/A | 2.5 | Separates colors into channels |
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| PNG/zlib (RGB) | 'png ' | 3.0 | N/A | Replacement for lossless GIF Images |
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| TGA (RGB) | 'tga ' | Used for lossless Still Images |
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| TIFF/PackBits (RGB) | 'tiff' | |||||
| Key/Intra and Inter Frame Video Encoders/Decoders | ||||||
| Animation/RLE (RGB) | 'rle ' | 3.0 | 2.0 | 1.5 | XAnim | Designed for PC Graphics and Archiving |
| Cinepak/ Compact Video (YUV) |
'cvid' | Designed for older PCs |
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| Graphics (RGB) | 'smc ' | Designed for 8-bit/ 256 color PC Graphics |
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| H.261 (YUV) | 'h261' | 4.0 | N/A | 4.0 | ITU Standard for Video Conferencing |
|
| H.263 (YUV) | 'h263' | 3.0 | 3.0 | |||
| MPEG-4 Video/ ISO/IEC 14496-2 (YUV) |
'mp4v' | 6.0 | 6.0 | N/A | ISO Standard for low bit rate video |
|
| Sorenson Video (YUV) | 'SVQ1' | 3.0 | N/A | 3.0 | Designed for modern PCs |
|
| Sorenson Video 3 (YUV) | 'SVQ3' | 5.0 | 5.0 | |||
| Video (YUV) | 'rpza' road pizza |
3.0 | 2.0 | All | XAnim | Faster Compression than Cinepak |