Tune in next week for individual discussions of the other track types within QuickTime. Sprites are the backbones of many interactive QuickTime movies. Sprite tracks hold within them these important items. A sprite track is a visual track. It stores samples that are displayed on the screen to the user.
Sprites can be interactive in many ways.
In fact, the things sprites can do are almost infinite. They are also capable of animation. In order to more adequately understand sprite tracks and their usage, I will now go into more detail. A sprite track, like any other type of track, is a container for a certain type of content. Within this container individual samples can be placed.