Lindows, video, and Rev

[Pierre Sahores]

Le 20 oct. 04, à 22:36, Mark Talluto a écrit :

>
> On Oct 20, 2004, at 10:12 AM, Pierre Sahores wrote:
>
>> Hi Mark,
>>
>> Took 1 hour to see how it goes on Suse-Linux 8.2 Pro with video and i 
>> did'nt get clean usable results. Xanim, VLC, MPlayer and so on are 
>> not on the road to egal Quicktime in any way... Sorry, i will not go 
>> head with those Linux video tests... I use the Mac OS X QTSS platform 
>> for such kind of tasks and it's really a more powerfull paradigm.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>> Pierre
>
>
> Pierre,
>
> Thanks for giving it a try.  I appreciate your time spent.  I will now 
> report what I have learned.  Jacque told me that Rev is wired directly 
> to xanim only at this time.  Not sure what the vcPlayer property is 
> for.  Maybe it will have a use in the future.
>
> I wish I could stick to Apple, but my distributor will pay me more for 
> a Linux version.  That was all I needed to hear.
>
> I was able to get xanim compiled on my Lindows system.  That was a 
> learning experience.  Once I got that placed into the correct 
> directory /usr/bin  video capabilities were available.  This solution 
> is not as powerful as QT on Mac and Win though.  The player object 
> does work though and this made my life a lot easier.  I have filed an 
> enhancement to get mplayer interoperability with Rev as it is current 
> and supported.  Xanim appears to be dead in the water in regards to 
> support.
>
> If anyone needs help compiling xanim, let me know.  I have a working 
> "makefile" that should speed up the whole setup process.
>
> Now...if only Apple would port QT to Linux....hmmm


Darwin Streaming Server works well under Linux x86 (i tested it 
successfully) but i'm not sure QT Player 6.xx and above will be ported 
to Linux ;-!

Best, Pierre
>
> -- 
> Best regards,
> Mark Talluto
> http://www.canelasoftware.com
>
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