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| (...) But could you play back the animation files on other systems without this software installed? Anyway, this is probably a discussion of lossy vs non-lossy compression. Animated GIFs can be used to compose non-lossy animations. And MPEG-1 can be (...) (23 years ago, 2-Sep-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) Well, you had to distrubute a free viewer (56 Kb) and a driver (27 Kb) and a 2 Kb document that reads "ANIMATE.EXE is a player for PC Animate Plus and 3D WorkShop animations. Although it is copyrighted by Bill Marsh, you may distribute it (...) (23 years ago, 3-Sep-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) I'm not quite sure I understand what you mean by that. With animated GIFs, you can set manually the delay between each frame. So you control the speed yourself. Do you mean that large GIFs are slower because they take more CPU to display? (...) (23 years ago, 3-Sep-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) (Oops, forgot to answer this one when I replied to your post just now.) Yes! I can play back most contemporary animations, both on Linux and Windows! On Linux I use MPlayer ((URL) can play back most MPEG and AVI files. (If you're a Linux user, (...) (23 years ago, 3-Sep-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) I too prefer the older interface, so I use the Classic Skin on Media Player 7 and run in compact mode. It's close enough to the old interface for my tastes. --Bram Bram Lambrecht bram@cwru.edu (URL) (23 years ago, 3-Sep-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) Hm, I didn't know such a thing existed. Just as I saw WMP 7 the first time, I just knew that I couldn't live with it. But the next time I need to upgrade some CODECs, I will try the classic skin. BTW, I've heard that WMP 7 is much more (...) (23 years ago, 3-Sep-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) I rarely run something else while I'm watching a movie, and I have a 933 MHz comp with 384 RAM, so I haven't noticed any problems. Windows 98, however, eats half my RAM, even when idle... --Bram Bram Lambrecht bram@cwru.edu (URL) (23 years ago, 3-Sep-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) Are we supposed to be surprised...? (23 years ago, 4-Sep-01, to lugnet.cad)
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