Re: Sending a Quicktime movie?
Re: Sending a Quicktime movie?
- Subject: Re: Sending a Quicktime movie?
- From: Quinn <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 10:04:39 +0000
At 17:17 -0600 15/1/04, Chilton Webb wrote:
Looking at how Mail.app does it, it's sending two chunks. Is one of
those the encoded resource?
Back in the day, QuickTime movies used both forks to store critical
data. The data fork held the movie data and the resource fork held
the 'moov' resource that described the movie. However, this hasn't
been the case for a long time (my guess is since QuickTime 3.0).
With current versions of QuickTime, whenever you save a movie, by
default it saves into just the data fork.
You can confirm this by opening the movie with ResEdit. If it has a
'moov' resource, it's an old-style movie.
As a rule, if a file has a resource fork, you should attach it as
AppleDouble, as per RFC 1740.
AppleDouble is the preferred format for a Macintosh file that is to
be included in an Internet mail message, because it provides
recipients with Macintosh computers the entire document, including
Icons and other Macintosh specific information, while other users
easily can extract the Data fork (the actual data) as it is separated
from the AppleDouble encoding.
S+E
--
Quinn "The Eskimo!" <
http://www.apple.com/developer/>
Apple Developer Technical Support * Networking, Communications, Hardware
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