TEXT, NATIVE LANGUAGE SUPPORT, AND TIME MEDIA - Representing QuickTime movies

Representing QuickTime movies

TQuickTimeMovie is the QuickTime movie file abstraction. A QuickTime movie contains one or more sequences (audio or video) and information about the movie.

NOTE Currently, when you stream a movie, only the name is streamed. Also, at this time you can only append frames to the end of a QuickTime movie, you cannot insert or remove frames. If you stop appending, the key sequence resets.

Key frames and key sequences

A key frame defines the starting point for part of a temporally compressed sequence. Subsequent difference frames depend on the previous key frame--they contain only the image information for the parts of the frame that differ from the key frame. A key sequence is a key frame followed by a series of difference frames.

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Key frames and key sequences
A key frame defines the starting point for part of a temporally compressed sequence.	Subsequent difference frames depend on the previous key frame--they contain only the image information for the parts of the frame that differ from the key frame.	A key sequence is a key frame followed by a series of difference frames.