Date: Fri, 26 May 1995 08:58:30 CDT From: Michael Cook Subject: Wanted: Quicktime 2.0 and Apple Movie Player summary I previously wrote: > I'm trying to locate a copy of Quicktime 2.0, as well as Apple's > "Movie Player". > > Would someone please send me the ftp locations of these applications? > Are they available somewhere other than ftp.apple.com? > > (I'm trying to play the "1984" Macintosh commercial, ... I got replies from the following folks. Thanks! EWilts@galaxy.gov.bc.ca (Ed Wilts) pope@imv.aau.dk (Povl H. Pedersen) Krishna Mattegunta Kant Peter Schoenrank glenhoag@nuance.com (Glen Hoag) ether@gulf.uvic.ca (Karen Etheridge) jtorrey@ksu.ksu.edu (J. Patrick Torrey) abrody@worldweb.net (Don't Panic) ware@covina.lightside.com (Ryan Ware) shakil@dircon.co.uk (Shakil) I'm open to suggestions for movie players that can play movies that Quicktime cannot. At the end of this summary is information about the 1984 Macintosh Super Bowl commercial. Michael Cook MLC@IBERIA.CCA.ROCKWELL.COM These are not the opinions of my employer. =============================================================================== Quicktime 1.6 is apparently available at: > ftp://ftp.cac.psu.edu//pub/mac/quicktime/QuickTime162.hqx > According to > > Macintosh/System.Software/Other.System.Software/QuickTime.Information.txt> > > QuickTime 1.x has been removed from all Apple ftp sites. and > QuickTime Information > > QuickTime 2.0 for Mac OS is available as part of System 7.5 or a $9.95 download > from CompuServe (GO QTIME). > > QuickTime 2.0 for Windows is only available as a $9.95 download from CompuServe > (GO QTIME). > > Beginning March 27, 1995, QuickTime 2.0 for both Mac OS and Windows will > also be available for $9.95 download via the internet at " > http://quicktime.apple.com ". > > All earlier versions of QuickTime are no longer available and have been removed > from Apple SW Updates. > > If you have any questions, please send an e-mail message to > "quicktime@applelink.apple.com". > QuickTime 2.0 is *NOT* freely distributable. You get a license and the media > as part of System 7.5, or you can purchase it separately. I hadn't realized this, since Quicktime 1.6 was free. I have System 7.1 on a Performa 475. > Simpletext is a Quicktime Player. Have you tried using that? > Simpletext will play Quicktime movies. There is no "quicktime application". > The extention is all that is necessary to open quicktime files in simpletext. > Other players, such as Sparkle, Movie Player and Movie Play, can be found on > sumex in the grf/qt directory. > Also, there's a piece of software called > Sparkle which will do the trick. It's available on info-mac. > There are _many_ shareware/freeware quicktime movie players at info-mac > and umich. I would recommend BijouPlay. You can find the players at > info-mac, in the grf/util directory. > The free player for QT movies is Simple Player. As I remember, it came > with my System Software. You might look around for it, though it may not > have been bundled with the Performa. For alternate movie players, check > the Info-Mac archive in /grf/util. > > > I had tried using Clarisworks 2.4, which was able to play the movie, but not of real high quality. I may need to change some Mac settings as mentioned below. I didn't think of using Simpletext, probably because of the name. My Performa documentation doesn't seem to mention playing movies (or I missed it). > You can get QuickTime 2.0 and the new movieplayer 2.0 using WWW and try > http://quicktime.apple.com Information at http://quicktime.apple.com/order-qt2mac.html says: QuickTime 2.0 for Macintosh will include: QuickTime(TM) QuickTime(TM) Musical Instruments QuickTime(TM) PowerPlug MoviePlayer 1.0 Apple Multimedia Tuner Scrapbook The cost is $9.95 (plus an on-line account start-up fee of $2.00). > You can also get QT 2.0 included on some CD-ROM's, such as Metatec's > Nautilus. While I don't recommend buying a subscription, I think you can > buy the latest release as a sample. > You may find Quicktime at any of the following sites as of 5/24/95, and > MoviePlayer at the first site for no cost at all. Get the larger version > of MoviePlayer. I found all of these using the Lycos search the WWW at > Carnegie Mellon University. > > Sites > ------- > http://popularmechanics.com/popmech/owner/ > ftp://explorer.arc.nasa.gov/pub/SPACE/SOFTWARE/quicktime.hqx > > ftp://ftp.cuhk.hk/pub/mov > > http://forum.swarthmore.edu/workshops/workshop.software.html > Do you have 16-bit color? I believe QT movies play faster in 16-bit > mode than 8-bit mode. > One thing that I noticed in playing back the 1984 movie is that it works > best with the screen depth set to 16 bits (Thousands of colors). It didn't > play back nearly as well when set to 8 bits (256 colors). > As I recall, 1984 is a huge (13 Meg or so) video. Whatever you use to play > it, set the memory of that app to the highest memory amount available (8 > Meg works fine with mine). > BTW, where did you get hold of the 1984 advert and how large is the file? Below is some information on getting the 1984 Macintosh commercial. The commercial is *large*. As one file, it is over 13MB. Some sites have the commercial broken into 1MB sections for easier downloading. These sections must then be combined to get the whole thing. Please use good netiquette when downloading to avoid frustrating other users. Download during off-hours to avoid long connection times to ftp sites. I got my copy here: > From: Rick_Granberry@pts.mot.com (Rick Granberry) > There are lots of pieces or the whole thing at > anonymous@amazon.eng.fau.edu > /pub/macs/1984 Other possibilities: > From: umgunter@cc.umanitoba.ca (Robert Brock Aidan Gunter-smith) > ftp.informatik.tu-muenchen.de > /pub/comp/platforms/macintosh/quicktime/qtmovie/1984.bin > From: teobh@singnet.com.sg (Alfred Teo) > ftp://lightspeed.pc.cc.cmu.edu/ > Navigate to the QuickTime directory. And yes, it's BIG! Took me three hours > to downloaded the monster. But worth it. > From: foremole@aol.com (Foremole) > From: JRBabbitt@lamg.com (Jim Babbitt) > try ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/mac/qt_movies > From: gentz@leo.org (Ortwin Gentz) > Try the "Link Everything Online" (LEO) Archive in Munich/Germany: > http://www.leo.org/archiv/macintosh/macintosh.engl.html > and here in the directory quicktime/qtmovie. You find there also the full > 64MB edition of "I think we're a clone now" - a movie about Mac licensing. Some tips on getting 1984 rolling: > From: palatine@direct.ca (Mike Dewit) > > De-code segments 2-18 first. (Ignore the warnings from Stuffit about not finding the other parts when unstuffing individual segments. -- MLC) > Once that's done, decode segment 1. Stuffit > then takes 1 and glues 2-18 to it. > > Brilliant images for a commercial.