XAnim Release 2.68.3


XAnim is a unix/vms X11 animation viewer. The intent was/is to develop
a base player that allows new animation types to be added as they are
developed.
 
Please read xanim.readme for information on compiling and customizing
xanim for your machine/preferences.

NEW TO REV 2.68.3
    + For VMS, new make.com that creates proper xanim.opt file.
    + optimized SMC(Apple Anim) quicktime codec.
    + +Z changed to +Ze and +Zp# option added.
NEW TO REV 2.68.2
    + more fixes to VMS/AXP make files.
    + fixed bug with +CF4 option
NEW TO REV 2.68.1
    + Fixes to make.com and xanim.h for VMS/AXP machines.
NEW TO REV 2.68.0 (see xanim.revhist for more info) 
    + More AVI and Quicktime Codecs.
    + Couple nasty bug fixes.
    + Several not so nasty bug fixes and optimizations.
    + New option(+CF4) for display True Color anims on 
      Pseudo Color Displays.
 
Once compiled, xanim can display the following:
 
    1) FLI anims.
    2) FLC anims.
    3) IFF animations. The following features are supported:
	-> Compressions 3,5,7,J(movies) and l(small L not 1).
	-> Color Cycling during single images and animations.
	-> Display Modes normal depth 1-8, EHB, HAM and HAM8.
    4) GIF87a and GIF89a files.
	-> single and multiple images supported.
	-> GIF89a animation extensions supported.
    5) a kludgy text file listing gifs and what order to show them in.
    6) DL animations. 
    7) Amiga PFX(PageFlipper Plus F/X) animations.
    8) Amiga MovieSetter animations(For those Eric Schwartz fans).
        NOTE: some of these are a must see.
    9) Utah Raster Toolkit RLE images and anims.
   10) AVI animations. Currently supported is
	-> Microsoft Video 1  (CRAM) depth 8 and 16.
	-> SuperMac Cinepak   (CVID) depth 24.
	-> Uncompressed       (RGB ) depth 8
	-> Run length encoded (RLE8) depth 8.
   11) Quicktime animations. The following features are supported:
	-> Uncompressed     (RAW ) depth 8.
	-> Apple Graphics   (RLE ) depth 1,8,16 and 24.
	-> Apple Animation  (SMC ) depth 8.
	-> Apple Video      (RPZA) depth 16.
	-> SuperMac Cinepak (CVID) depth 24.
	-> Supports multiple video trak's.
	-> Supports animations with multiple codecs.
	-> Supports flattened anims AND
	-> Supports separate .rsrc and .data forks.
   12) any combination of the above on the same command line.
 
 
Other features:
 
    1) On the fly scaling of animations.
    2) Option to use default cmap.
    3) Merge the cmaps of several anims to prevent color flickering.
    4) no buffer, buffer and pixmap options for speed/memory tradeoffs.
    5) option to read animation from file instead of loading to memory.
    6) looping and ping-pong options.
    7) User selectable X11 Visual supported for Multi Visual Servers.
    8) Timing options for benchmarking purposes.
    9) Forwards/Backwards/single stepping from keyboard and mouse.
   10) variable speed playback from keyboard.
   11) Gamma adjustment to colormaps.

Current Known Bugs:
    2) Scaling support isn't complete for Visuals with depths 4
       and 2 that pack more than one pixel per byte.

TODO: (none of this is guaranteed)
    1) Sound support for AVI/QT anims.(as 27Jun94 it's working on Sparcs)
    2) X11 Resource input.
    3) remote control.
    4) more anim formats and codecs.

Feel free to email any bug reports, suggestions, comments, etc.

Mark Podlipec       podlipec@wellfleet.com