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.
_____________________________________________________________________________________ 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 N/A 4.0 N/A fpx,fpix Graphics Interchange Compuserve 3.0 N/A 2.5 XAnim gif Format C-Cube JPEG File Microsystems/ Interchange Joint 3.0 N/A 2.5 XAnim jfif,jpg,jpeg,jpe Format Photographic Experts Group MacPaint Apple/Claris 3.0 N/A 2.5 N/A pntg,pnt,mac Photoshop Adobe 3.0 N/A 2.5 N/A psd Portable Network W3 Graphics Consortium 3.0 N/A 3.0 N/A png QuickDraw Picture Apple 3.0 N/A All N/A pict,pic,pct QuickTime Image Format Apple 3.0 N/A 2.5 N/A qti Silicon Graphics Silicon Image Graphics 3.0 N/A 2.5 N/A sgi,rgb Targa TrueVision 3.0 N/A 3.0 N/A targa,tga Tagged Image Aldus/ File Format Adobe 3.0 N/A 3.0 N/A tiff,tif Windows BitMaP Microsoft Internal Internal 3.0 N/A 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/ Motion Picture m1a,mpa,mp2, ISO/IEC 11172-3 Experts Group 5.0 N/A 2.0PPC N/A mpeg,mpg,mpm (Layers I/II) MPEG-2 Audio/ Motion Picture m2a,mpa,mp2, ISO/IEC 13818-3 Experts Group Add-on N/A Add-on N/A mpeg,mpg,mpm (Layers I/II) MPEG Audio Motion Picture (with ID3 Experts Group 4.0 N/A 4.0PPC N/A mp3,mpeg,mpg for Layer III) Musical Instrument Roland/ midi,mid,rmi, Digitial Interface Yamaha 3.0 2.0 2.0 N/A smf,kar QuickTime Audio Apple All All All XAnim mov,qt QualComm Purevoice 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 3.0 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 3.0 N/A 3.0 XAnim flc,fli DigitalVideo Digital VCR Stream Conference 3.0 N/A 3.0 N/A dv,dif Shockwave Flash 3 Macromedia 4.0 N/A 4.0 N/A swf Shockwave Flash 4 Macromedia 5.0 N/A 5.0 N/A swf Shockwave Flash 5 Macromedia 6.0 N/A 6.0 N/A swf MPEG-1 System/ Motion Picture mpeg,mpg,dat,m1s, ISO/IEC 11172-1 Experts Group 5.0 N/A 2.0PPC N/A mpgx,mpm,rtf MPEG-2 System/ Motion Picture ISO/IEC 13818-1 Experts Group Add-on N/A Add-on N/A mpeg,mpg,m2s MPEG-4 System/ Motion Picture ISO/IEC 14496-1 Experts Group 6.0 N/A 6.0 N/A m4s,mp4,mpg4 MPEG-1 Video/ Motion Picture mpeg,mpg,mpv,m1v, ISO/IEC 11172-2 Experts Group N/A N/A 2.0PPC XAnim m2v,m75,m15 MPEG-2 Video/ Motion Picture ISO/IEC 13818-2 Experts Group Add-on N/A Add-on N/A mpeg,mpg,m2v QuickDraw Picture Sequence Apple All All All XAnim pics QuickTime Video Apple All All All XAnim mov,qt RIFF Audio Video Interleave Microsoft Internal Internal 3.0 XAnim avi,vfw Text Formats Hyper Text W3 Markup Consortium 4.0 N/A 4.0 N/A (Import only) Language Importer QuickTime PreFlight Text Importer Apple 5.0 N/A 5.0 N/A (Import only) Real Time Streaming Protocol Apple 4.0 N/A 4.0 N/A rtsp,rts,mov Session Description Protocol Apple 4.0 N/A 4.0 N/A sdp,mov ShoutCast PlayLiSt Nullsoft 5.0 N/A 5.0 N/A pls Synchronized Multimedia W3 Integration Consortium 4.1 N/A 4.1PPC N/A smil,sml,smi,mov Language Text Importer Apple 3.0 2.0 1.5 N/A 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 QT Windows Type type 32-bit 16-bit Mac Unix Purpose/Notes code Audio Encoders/Decoders Two's Complement - 8 & 16-bit 68k Big Endian 'twos' Internal Internal Internal XAnim signed samples PCM Two's Complement - 8 & 16-bit x86 Little Endian 'sowt' Internal Internal Internal XAnim signed samples PCM 24-bit Increasing samples Integer PCM 'in24' 3.0 N/A 2.5 Unknown beyond 16 bits 32-bit Increasing samples Floating Point 'fl32' 3.0 N/A 2.5 Unknown beyond 16 bits PCM 32-bit Increasing samples Integer PCM 'in32' 3.0 N/A 2.5 Unknown beyond 16 bits 64-bit Increasing samples Floating Point 'fl64' 3.0 N/A 2.5 Unknown beyond 16 bits PCM 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 XAnim Decoder only Digital Video audio 'dvca' 3.0 N/A 3.0 N/A Decoder only DVI Streaming IMA ADPCM 4:1 'dvi ' 4.0 N/A 4.0 N/A Decoder only Linear Predictive Coding 23:1 'lpc ' 3.0 N/A 3.0 N/A Voice decoder only Apple Interactive Multimedia 'ima4' Internal Internal 2.0 XAnim 16-bit samples only Association 4:1 MS IMA Microsoft's version ADPCM 4:1 'ms$0002' Internal Internal 3.0 XAnim of IMA for Waveform files DVI IMA Intel's version ADPCM 4:1 'ms$0011' Internal Internal 3.0 XAnim of IMA for Waveform files MPEG-4 Advanced Proprietary Audio Coding/ 'mp4a' 6.0 N/A 6.0 N/A Replacement ISO/IEC 14496-3 for MPEG layer III AAC MPEG Layer III Fraunhofer's low bps Fixed Rate 'ms$0055' Internal Internal 4.0 N/A CBR MPEG layer III decoder MPEG Layer III Fraunhofer's full (with Xing '.mp3' Internal Internal 4.1 N/A VBR MPEG layer III VBR header) decoder Macintosh Audio Compression & 'MAC3' All All Internal N/A 8-bit samples only Expansion 3:1 Macintosh Audio Compression & 'MAC6' All All Internal N/A 8-bit samples only Expansion 6:1 Pulse Code 8-bit unsigned Modulation 8-bit 'raw ' Internal Internal Internal XAnim samples Offset Linear QDesign Music 1 'QDMC' 3.0 N/A 3.0 N/A 16-bit samples only QDesign Music 2 'QDM2' 4.0 N/A 4.0 N/A 16-bit samples only Qualcomm Purevoice(TM) 'Qclp' 3.0 N/A 3.0 N/A 16-bit samples only (mu)-Law 2:1 'ulaw' Internal Internal 2.0 XAnim 16-bit samples only Image or Key/Intra Frame Only Video Encoders/Decoders Apple BMP Used in /MS RLE (RGB) 'WRLE' 3.0 N/A 3.0 N/A Windows Bitmaps Component Video Uses unsigned YUV (YUV) 'yuv2' 3.0 2.0 1.5 XAnim 4:2:2 color space Component Video Uses unsigned YUV - YUV 'yuv2' 3.0 2.0 1.5 XAnim 4:2:2 color space DV - NTSC Standard for (YUV) 'dvc ' 3.0 N/A 3.0 N/A DV/FireWire DV - PAL Standard for (YUV) 'dvcp' 3.0 N/A 3.0 N/A DV/FireWire DV Pro - NTSC Pro Standard for (YUV) 'dvpn' 4.0 N/A 4.0 N/A DV/FireWire DV Pro - PAL Pro Standard for (YUV) 'dvpp' 6.0 N/A 6.0 N/A DV/FireWire Motion JPEG A Used for Video (YUV) 'mjpa' 3.0 N/A 2.5 XAnim Capturing from M-JPEG cards Motion JPEG B Used for Video (YUV) 'mjpb' 3.0 N/A 2.5 N/A Capturing from M-JPEG cards None Direct to video /Plain RGB 'raw ' 3.0 2.0 All XAnim raw pixel map Photo - JPEG Best for /JFIF (YUV) 'jpeg' 3.0 2.0 1.5 XAnim Still Images Planar RGB Separates colors /Photoshop '8BPS' 3.0 N/A 2.5 XAnim into channels PNG/zlib (RGB) 'png ' 3.0 N/A 3.0 N/A Replacement for lossless GIF Images TGA (RGB) 'tga ' 3.0 N/A 3.0 N/A Used for lossless Still Images TIFF/PackBits Used for lossless (RGB) 'tiff' 3.0 N/A 3.0 N/A Still Images Key/Intra and Inter Frame Video Encoders/Decoders Animation Designed /RLE (RGB) 'rle ' 3.0 2.0 1.5 XAnim for PC Graphics and Archiving Cinepak/Compact Designed for Video (YUV) 'cvid' 3.0 2.0 1.5 XAnim older PCs Graphics Designed for 8-bit/ (RGB) 'smc ' 3.0 2.0 1.5 XAnim 256 color PC Graphics H.261 ITU Standard for (YUV) 'h261' 4.0 N/A 4.0 N/A Video Conferencing H.263 ITU Standard for (YUV) 'h263' 3.0 N/A 3.0 XAnim Video Conferencing MPEG-4 Video/ ISO Standard for ISO/IEC 14496-2 'mp4v' 6.0 N/A 6.0 N/A low bit rate video (YUV) Sorenson Video Designed for (YUV) 'SVQ1' 3.0 N/A 3.0 N/A modern PCs Sorenson Video 3 Designed for (YUV) 'SVQ3' 5.0 N/A 5.0 N/A modern PCs Video 'rpza' Faster (YUV) road pizza 3.0 2.0 All XAnim Compression than Cinepak _______________________________________________________________________________