X Movie

Author: Adam Williams    broadcast@earthling.net
Homepages:	freeyellow.com/members4/heroine
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The official license for this software is GPL, although you have
permission to link commercial codecs and use snippets of code from this
package in a commercial product.  There is no warranty, not even the
implication of fitness for a particular purpose.

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Introducing a movie player for Quicktime movies with stereo sound.  It
won't play any movies you download from the internet.  What XMovie is
used for is playing long, high resolution movies you capture or
composite yourself with stereo sound.  The other Quicktime players,
well, the other player is not convenient for movies over 50 minutes and
it doesn't support aspect ratios or stereo sound.

XMovie plays PNG, JPEG, YUV 4:2:2, YUV 4:2:0, packed RGB movies with
PCM, ulaw, and IMA4 sound.  XMovie is still the single solitary Linux
player supporting stereo sound out of Quicktime.  

XMovie's synchronization is hardware based.  If your sound driver
doesn't work, select options->"synchronize using software".

The aspect ratio is fixed to the value under Options->Aspect Ratio
regardless of your movie resolution.  This was done because most video
sources have non-square pixels and you need to capture in the same
resolution as the source to save drive space.  The BT878 for example
supports 640x480 scaling but its resolution is only about 512x480.

There's no good academic way to add codecs.  For commercial codecs, try
using the Quicktime library as a back end to a new entry in file.C, but
only after giving Apple a little longer to release their own Linux
compile.  For free codecs, put those in the quicktime library.

Bugs:
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Lots of them.
