board, SGI's hardware JPEG accelerator.  How do I do
                this?
Date: Fri May  3 10:23:53 PDT 1996

  Movies which are compatible with the Cosmo Compress board
  have the following characteristics:

    - Image compression must be JPEG.
    - Width must be video (NTSC or PAL) sized,
      and an even multiple of 8.
    - Height must be video sized, and an even multiple of 8.
    - Image frames must be interlaced (odd interlacing for NTSC,
      even interlacing for PAL).
    - Image frames must be oriented top to bottom.
    - Image packing must be RGB.
    - Image track frame rate must be 29.97 for NTSC,
      25.0 for PAL.

  Here is a piece of code which will check an existing image
  track for you.  C programmers will hopefully forgive the use
  of C++ style comments:


  ///////////////
  //
  // Check to see if the video track is one of the subset of
  // JPEG-encoded tracks that the cosmo board can play.
  //
  ///////////////

  static DMboolean isCosmoCompatible( MVid videotrack )
  {
      //
      // must be JPEG.
      //
      if ( mvGetCompression(videotrack) != IMAGE_COMP_JPEG ) {
    	  return DM_FALSE;
      }

      //
      // width must be video sized, even multiple of 8.
      //
      int width = mvGetImageWidth(videotrack);
      if ( width < 16 || width > 768 || width % 8 ) {
    	  return DM_FALSE;
      }

      //
      // height must be video sized, even multiple of 8.
      //
      int height = mvGetImageHeight(videotrack);
      if ( height < 16 || height > 2*296 || height % 8 ) {
    	  return DM_FALSE;
      }

      //
      // image frames must be interlaced.
      //
      if ( mvGetImageInterlacing(videotrack) == DM_IMAGE_NONINTERLACED) {
    	  return DM_FALSE;
      }

      //
      // image frames must be oriented top to bottom.
      //
      if ( mvGetImageOrientation(videotrack) != DM_TOP_TO_BOTTOM ) {
	  return DM_FALSE;
      }

      //
      // image packing must be RGB.
      //
      if ( mvGetImagePacking(videotrack) != DM_PACKING_RGB ) {
    	  return DM_FALSE;
      }

      //
      // we've run the gauntlet.  dmplay can play this movie.
      //
      return DM_TRUE;
  }