For this project QuickTime is the format of choice, since most QuickTime players control the frame rate, whereas most MPEG players just play the sequence as fast as it can. On many workstations, the playback can be too fast. Every other frame in the original video was dropped, so the frame rate is 15fps. QuickTime allows playback at a rate that matches the original video. Additionally, QuickTime allows a soundtrack, whereas MPEG does not.
All the stills and movies are in 24 bit color, so they don't look so hot on an 8 bit display.
Playing QuickTime movies on UNIX workstations requires a bit of setting up. Make sure you have access to a player that knows QuickTime. xanim understands a variety of formats including QuickTime, allows resizing of the image, and has a number of colormap options. Additionally, your .mailcap file should indicate that your client is to use it. If you don't have a .mailcap file, you should get one. Here's mine:
# This is a simple example mailcap file. # Lines starting with '#' are comments. # This maps all types of audio data (audio/basic, audio/x-aiff, # etc.) to the viewer 'showaudio'. Note that '%s' means 'put the # datafile name here when the viewer is executed'. audio/*; showaudio %s # This maps all types of images (image/gif, image/jpeg, etc.) # to the viewer 'xv'. image/*; xv %s # This maps MPEG video data to the viewer 'mpeg_play'. video/mpeg; mpeg_play %s # This maps all types of video *other than MPEG* to the viewer # 'xanim'. # xanim options: +T1 = show frame number in title bar # +Sr = allow resizing of window # +CF4 = look ahead a number of frames to compute # colormap (8 bit displays only) video/*; xanim +T1 +Sr +CF4 %s application/postscript; ghostview %s application/x-dvi; xdvi %sFrom Windows you need a special driver, player and God Knows What.
From the Mac it should just work if you have the QuickTime extension enabled.