What movie formats are available?
• Apple QuickTime (.qt and .qtm), • Compuserve Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) (.gif), • Intel Digital VIdeo (DVI) [not to be confused with the more common TeX typesetting system’s DeVice Independent (.dvi) output format], • Macromedia Flash, • Macromedia Shockwave, • Microsoft Audio Video Interleaved (.avi), • Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) (.mpeg and .mpg), • Multiple-image Network Graphics (MNG) (.mng), • Portable Network Graphics (PNG) (.png), and • RealNetworks net-streaming video.The GIF format was long protected by aggressively-defended patents owned by Unisys, but the patents expired in the USA on 2003-06-30, and have since expired in most other countries, including Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the United Kingdom. It is now likely to be safe to use the GIF format, even though superior alternatives, like PNG, have since been developed. See PNG versus GIF for a useful comparison.
• Apple QuickTime (.qt and .qtm), • Compuserve Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) (.gif), • Intel Digital VIdeo (DVI) [not to be confused with the more common TeX typesetting system’s DeVice Independent (.dvi) output format], • Macromedia Flash, • Macromedia Shockwave, • Microsoft Audio Video Interleaved (.avi), • Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) (.mpeg and .mpg), • Multiple-image Network Graphics (MNG) (.mng), • Portable Network Graphics (PNG) (.png), and • RealNetworks net-streaming video. The GIF format was long protected by aggressively-defended patents owned by Unisys, but the patents expired in the USA on 2003-06-30, and have since expired in most other countries, including Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the United Kingdom. It is now likely to be safe to use the GIF format, even though superior alternatives, like PNG, have since been developed. See PNG versus GIF for a useful comparison.
