Quicktime Atoms
Quicktime Atoms
- Subject: Quicktime Atoms
- From: James Mooney <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 15:52:28 -0400
Greetings,
This is probably best handled for QT List, but I subscribe to enough
lists...perhaps someone can point me in a quick directions.
I was reading information on Quicktime file formats and in the
introduction of explaining QT Atoms, it compares them to "classic
atoms". Okay, so to understand QT Atoms, you need to know about
classic atoms fine. So I didn't get a degree in CS but and familiar
with data structures and such and never came across an atom. I have
heard of trees and leafs and nodes, by no subatomic structures (that
was physics).
I did a search on the web and only come up with Apple references, I
check the half dozen C books and no atoms, I even went and polled a few
java and C++ books. No Atoms or classic atoms.
Seeing that Apple loves to do this all the time.....explaining one
thing with another.....and never explaining the later (what the hell
is a nib really? in concrete terms aka show me the dam thing) Does
anyone in less than two paragraphs or less point me to or explain
exactly what a classic atom is. What is the structure definition,
things you do with it ect.
The reason I ask for classic atoms is that Apple literature states that
some QT Atoms are just classic atoms and others are not. Since a
classic atom is never defined, How is one to compare.
(Sorry I vent but Apple might once and a while might ask why there are
not as many Mac developers, and it is times like this I understand why.
Mind you I went and bought the Inside QT File format from apple and
the first page starts off with defining QT Atoms as similiar to classic
atoms ..... well since that is their defination, then I better well
know what a classic atoms is....but can't find any reference to what it
is!!!!)
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Jim
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