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# XAnim

VERSION

### 8 (X11 version 2.69.7.8)

AUTHOR

Mark Podlipec (podlipec@wellfleet.com) (http://www.portal.com/~podlipec/home.html "The XAnim Home Page")

Terje Pedersen (terjepe@hstud6.cs.uit.no) ported it to Amiga. (Oterveien 55/9017 Tromsoe/Norway)

DESCRIPTION

This is a port of the X11 animation viewer Xanim by Mark Podlipec.

XAnim is a program that can display animations of various formats on systems running X11. XAnim currently supports the following animation types:

FLI/FLC animations. IFF animations. The following features are supported:

- Compressions 3,5,7,J(movies) and l(small L).
- Color cycling during single images and anims.
- Display Modes: depth 1-8, EHB, HAM and HAM8.

- GIF87a and GIF89a files.
  - single and multiple images supported.
  - GIF89a animation extensions supported.
- GIF89a animation extension support.
- a kludgy text file listing gifs and what order to show them in.
- DL animations. Formats 1, 2 and most of 3.
- Amiga PFX(PageFlipper Plus F/X) animations. DISABLED TEMPORARILY.
- Amiga MovieSetter animations(For those Eric Schwartz fans).
- Utah Raster Toolkit RLE images and anims.
- AVI animations. Currently supported are
  - IBM Ultimotion (ULTI) depth 16.
    - JPEG (JPEG) depth 24.
    - Motion JPEG (MJPG) depth 24.
    - Intergraph JPEG (IJPG) depth 24.
  - Microsoft Video 1 (CRAM) depth 8 and 16.
  - SuperMac Cinepak (CVID) depth 24.
  - Uncompressed (RGB ) depth 8
  - Uncompressed (RGB ) depth 24
  - Run length encoded (RLE8) depth 8.
  - Editable MPEG (XMPG) depth 24.
- Quicktime Animations. The following features are supported:
  - Uncompressed (RAW ) depth 4,8,16,24 and 24+
  - Uncompressed (RAW ) Gray depth 4 and 8.
  - Apple Graphics (RLE ) depth 1,8,16 and 24.
  - Apple Graphics (RLE ) GRAY depth 8.
  - Apple Animation (SMC ) depth 8 and GRAY 8.
  - Apple Video (RPZA) depth 16.
  - SuperMac Cinepak (CVID) depth 24 and GRAY 8.
  - Component Video (YUV2) depth 24.
  - Photo JPEG (JPEG) depth 8 and 24.
  - Supports multiple video trak's.
  - Supports animations with multiple codecs.
  - Supports merged and separated resource forks.
- JFIF images. NOTE: use XV for single images. This is more for animation of a sequence of JPEG images.
- MPEG animations. Currently only Type I Frames are displayed. Type B and Type P frames are currently ignored, but will be added in future revs.
- WAV audio files may have their sound added to any animation type that doesn't already have audio, by specifying the .wav file after the animation file on the command line. Currently only the PCM audio codec is supported.
- any combination of the above on the same command line.

The following is a list of currently supported audio formats:

- AVI 8 and 16 bit RAW(PCM) mono/stereo.
- AVI ADPCM is supported(mono only for now).
- Quicktime 8 and 16 bit RAW(PCM) mono/stereo.
- Quicktime 8 and 16 bit TWOS(signed PCM) mono/stereo.

NEW FEATURES

- AVI RGB depth 24 support added.
- AVI XMPG support added. This is the Editable MPEG Video
- IFF Anim8 support written by Garrick Meeker.
- DL animation format thrown back in and now allows it to

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

Amigas with 68020+ AGA or a GFX card. Currently reported to work on: Amiga 3000 with EGS Spectrum board (promoting XAnim) Amiga 3000 with Picasso II (promoting Xanim) Amiga 4000 native Amiga 4000 with EGS Spectrum board (promoting XAnim) Amiga 2000 with a Retina GFXBoard Xanim has also been mentioned to work with CyberVision.

AVAILABILITY

An X11 version in source form is available on public.x.org and other X11 sites.
http://ftp.wustl.edu/pub/aminet/gfx/show/xanim8.lha

PRICE

Free! With a suggested contribution of $10 for the use of my X11 emulation (libX11) and my efforts at porting the program.

DISTRIBUTABILITY

Xanim is Copyright 1991-1995 Mark Podlipec and the distribution of the Amiga version has been granted by the original author.

The program may not be sold/redistributed in any other way or form without the consent of the author.

OTHER

Have a look in http://www.cs.uit.no/~kjelli/tp for some on-line info! These announcements has a tencency to be seriously outdated when they get accepted so you may want to check: http://www.cs.uit.no/~kjelli/tp for some more recent info!