January 2005
Intermediate to advanced
256 pages
6h 34m
English
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Chapter 9. Miscellaneous Media
Audio and video are the
most
obvious and prominent kinds of media that can be found in a QuickTime
movie, but the story doesn’t end there. Take a look
at quicktime.std.movies.media, and
you’ll find more than a dozen subclasses of
Media, each representing media types that can be
referenced by tracks in QuickTime movies.
This chapter is going to show off four of these, as much to show the variety of QuickTime as to illuminate their practical uses. These four are:
Text media
HREF media (actually a special case of text)
Timecode media
Effects media (actually a special case of video)
Elsewhere in the book, I’ve also mentioned
MPEG media, which isn’t
so much a new media type as it is a disappointing
compromise—QuickTime can’t present the audio
and video of a multiplexed MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 file as separate tracks,
so instead it uses a single track pointing to
“MPEGMedia,” which has both visual
and audio characteristics (i.e., its media handler implements both
VisualMediaHandler and
AudioMediaHandler).
I’m not covering several media types for reasons of
space and concision. Sprites (represented by
SpriteMedia) and QuickTime VR
(QTVRMedia) are plenty cool; however, each
required an entire volume of the old Inside Macintosh series, making them too involved to handle in
this format. ThreeDMedia is effectively deprecated
and isn’t even present in Mac OS X. A few other
media types are present largely as implementations for higher-level
features—for instance, MovieMedia ...
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