> The best computers could handle back then was MPEG-1 video… Fun fact: MPEG-1 decode needed enough horsepower that software decode implementations shipped sev

> The best computers could handle back then was MPEG-1 video… Fun fact: MPEG-1 decode needed enough horsepower that software decode implementations shipped several years after popular-for-CD-ROM video formats like Cinepak¹. The timeline: Cinepak shipped as part of QuickTime in 1992. Myst (a very popular CD-ROM title which used Cinepak) shipped in 1993. Apple shipped their MPEG-1 QuickTime extension (PowerPC-only) in 1997. ¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinepak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinepak