[MACTCL] ANNOUNCE: QuickTimeTcl 3.0b1

[Mats B. <ma...@pr...>]

ANNOUNCE: QuickTimeTcl version 3.0b1 -----------------------------------

    First beta of QuickTimeTcl for Tcl/Tk for Macintosh and Windows.

    This is an extension package to Tcl/Tk that makes available a lot of
    QuickTime functionality for script programming.  Most of the features are
    collected into a movie widget, which results in an object oriented way of
    programming multimedia.

    Some features:

      * Simple playback of audio and video in a movie widget; for instance, play
	mp3, view VR panoramas, most video and sound formats, streaming live
	content from a broadcaster, shockwave/flash, etc.  Remote (URL) 
	connections can be made asynchronously.

      * A sequence grabber widget that previews and captures video and audio from
	an external source, such as a web camera or a DV video camera, via the 
	serial port, USB, or FireWire.

      * Editing commands, such as cut, copy and paste, both on complete movies 
	and down to individual tracks. Video effects through dialogs.

      * Versatile methods for making movies from individual images, supporting 
	sequence compression, usage of all appropriate QT codecs, compression 
	levels, keyframe rate etc.

      * Exporting to a number of audio/video formats via dialogs.

      * Most still image formats are supported implicitly by QuickTimeTcl but 
	via tk's own image widget.

    This release includes numerous bug fixes as well as many additional
    features compared to previous releases.  See the CHANGES file for a
    detailed list.  The most important additions from 3.0a3 are:

      * Making movies from still images, single or a sequence.  You can specify
      	compressors, bit depth, spatial and temporal compression qualities, and
      	more.  Adding a list of images you may utilize both temporal and spatial
      	compression for codecs that support this, resulting in highly optimized
      	movies.

      * A number of commands and options for QTVR panorama movies.

      * Reworked and extended ways of saving movies to disk.  There are four
      	different ways to save a movie.  Possible to handle the resource fork of
      	movie files.

      * Many options for adding text to a text track, support for text
      	descriptors.

      * Sequence grabber works on Windows now.  Possible to create an audio only
      	grabber.

      * May load movie completely into memory.

    ...and much more, not to mention all the bug fixes.  Mac and Windows 100%
    compatibility (only bugs may be different).

    "BSD style" license.

    Visit "http://hem.fyristorg.com/matben/qt/" for additional
    info and download.


    Enjoy,     Mats
    ma...@pr...