Video clips play at the speed of your computer's CPU, so getting satisfactory video performance may be outside your reach right now. Similarly with sound: you require a Sound Blaster compatible board or the equivalent to be able to hear sound files on your DOS or Windows computer. Newer Macintoshes generally have built-in sound.
Here are some common external viewers and converters you will want to install, and the multimedia formats that they can display:
| Program Name | Size (Kb) | What it displays | Ghostview | 525 | Postscript | GIFConverter | 450 | Other Images | LView | 420 | .GIF/JPEG graphic images | MPEGPlay | 145 | Sound files | SOX | ?? | Sound files | Simple Player | 110 | QuickTime Movies | SoundCap | ?? | Indeo (Intel video format) | WHAM | 190 | .AU and .AIFF sound files | WinECJ | 90 | JPEG graphic images | Wplany | 30 | Sound files | ?? | AVI to MPEG |
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| Program Name | Size (Kb) | What it displays | AVI>Quick | ?? | AVI to QuickTime | FastPlayer | ?? | flattens QuickTime movies | JPEGView | 420 | Complex graphic images | GIFConverter | 450 | Other Images | Simple Player | 110 | QuickTime Movies | SoundApp | ?? | Sound files | SndPlayer | 126 | SND files | Sparkle | 150 | MPEG and QuickTime | UlawPlay | 90 | Sound files | Stuffit Expander | 130 | Compressed and encoded files |
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