[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".
[3] The bit-stream format of Apple Video has been reverse-engineered and a decoder has been implemented in the projects XAnim and Libavcodec.
[3] Because Apple Video operates in the image domain without motion compensation, decoding is much faster than MPEG-style codecs which use motion compensation and perform coding in a transform domain.
[3] Runs of skip blocks are coded in a run-length encoding scheme, enabling a high compression ratio in static areas of the picture.