Apple Video

"RPZA" redirects here. For reduced pressure zone assemblies in water supply, see Reduced pressure zone device.

Apple Video is a lossy video compression and decompression algorithm (codec) developed by Apple Inc. and first released as part of QuickTime 1.0 in 1991.[1] The codec is also known as QuickTime Video, by its FourCC RPZA and the name Road Pizza.[2][3] (The codename "Road Pizza" is a reference to the idea that "when you run over an animal, you're basically compressing it on the freeway".[4]) When used in the AVI container, the FourCC AZPR is also used.[3]

The bit-stream format of Apple Video has been reverse-engineered and a decoder has been implemented in the projects XAnim and Libavcodec.[2][5]

  1. ^ Guillermo A. Ortiz (Summer 1991). "QuickTime 1.0: "You oughta be in pictures"" (PDF). Apple Computer. Retrieved 14 April 2013.
  2. ^ a b "FFmpeg Documentation". FFmpeg. Retrieved 4 April 2013.
  3. ^ a b "Apple RPZA". MultimediaWiki. 11 December 2008. Retrieved 4 April 2013.
  4. ^ "CHM Live: The Origins of QuickTime". Computer History Museum.
  5. ^ Mark Podlipec (10 December 1997). "xanim.2.70.6.4.2 README". XAnim. Archived from the original on 28 December 2015. Retrieved 4 April 2013.