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Good idea! … that's what I used to do when converting bitplane Amiga ANIMs to my 8-bit chunky-pixel machine: display while converting. Pretty durned slow, too 🙂 But of course, once converted, they were very fast. But there's a more fundamental difference than the bitplane/chunky format. Amiga ANIMs depend on using double-buffering, in order to prevent update glitches (speed, bitplane rainbow effects, tearing, etc) from being visible. Quicktime Movies, on the other hand, don't have to take up the entire visible screen. They might have to share with text, and even with other Movies. (And of course, QT can scale and dither them to any size/type display.) This means QT (or lookalikes) can't take advantage of double-buffering. You can, of course, if just doing a full-screen Movie converter/player. best – kev