freebsd-ports/graphics/xanim/pkg-descr
Satoshi Asami 8a4199869d Add blurb about animation formats from the man page. Without this,
the DESCR file is not very useful. ;)
1995-08-15 08:44:36 +00:00

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XAnim is a program that can display animations of various
formats on systems running X11. XAnim currently supports
the following animation types:
+ FLI animations.
+ FLC animations.
+ IFF animations. The following features are sup-
ported:
-> Compressions 3,5,7,J(movies) and l(small
L).
-> Color cycling during single images and
anims.
-> Display Modes: depth 1-8, EHB, HAM and
HAM8.
+ GIF87a and GIF89a files.
-> single and multiple images supported.
-> GIF89a animation extensions supported.
+ GIF89a animation extension support.
+ a kludgy text file listing gifs and what order
to show them in.
+ DL animations. Formats 1, 2 and partial 3.
+ Amiga PFX(PageFlipper Plus F/X) animations. TEMP
DISABLED
+ Amiga MovieSetter animations(For those Eric
Schwartz fans).
+ Utah Raster Toolkit RLE images and anims.
+ AVI animations. Currently supported are
-> IBM Ultimotion (ULTI) depth 16.
-> JPEG (JPEG) depth 24.
images.
+ MPEG animations. Currently only Type I Frames
are displayed. Type B and Type P frames are cur-
rently ignored, but will be added in future
revs.
+ WAV audio files may have their sound added to
any animation type that doesn't already have
audio, by specifying the .wav file after the
animation file on the command line. Currently
only the PCM audio codec is supported.
+ any combination of the above on the same command
line.
XAnim also provides various options that allow the user to
alter colormaps, playback speeds, looping modes and can
provide on-the-fly scaling of animations with the mouse.