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Everything about QuickTime Animation

Video codec by Apple Inc

QuickTime Animation format is a video compression format and codec created by Apple Computer to enable playback of RGB video in real time without expensive hardware. It is generally found in the QuickTime container with the FourCC 'rle '. It can perform either lossless or lossy compression and is one of the few video codecs that supports an alpha channel. Supported color depths are 1-bit (monochrome), 15-bit RGB, 24-bit RGB, 32-bit ARGB, as well as palettized RGB. As a result of reverse-engineering of the format, a decoder is implemented in XAnim as well as an encoder and decoder in libavcodec. Wikipedia →

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

  1. Read the overview: QuickTime AnimationA 5-minute orientation
  2. Pick up a classic book: QuickTime Toolkit Volume OneThe most-reprinted book on the subject
  3. Read the landmark paper: Interactive Animation of Hydrogen Atomic Orbitals Using QTVR(QuickTime Virtual Reality).Cited 7 times
  4. Go sideways: QuickTime GraphicsA closely related topic
  5. Go sideways: Apple VideoA closely related topic

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