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.
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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
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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
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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
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