Revolution Media 4.x and Revolution Player 3.x

[Luis]

Hiya,

The Player makes distribution easier, as in there not being a need to  
download and install revMedia in order to see the stacks: Slaps the  
stacks onto a USB stick with the Player and can show it off to anyone  
without having to get them to 'have to' install revMedia.

Cheers,

Luis.


On 12 Nov 2009, at 20:32, Richmond Mathewson wrote:

> Jan Schenkel wrote:
>> With revMedia 4.0 being free, why would we still need a Player?
>> The whole idea of giving revMedia away for free, is to let  
>> everyone share in the fun - running stacks, deploying them in  
>> webpages and letting others take them apart without the ability to  
>> password-protect your scripts.
>> Don't panic, revStudio and revEnterprise can still password- 
>> protect scripts and these stacks will work just fine in revMedia.  
>> But revMedia is about sharing with the rest of the world, and  
>> getting more people to try out the revPlatform for themselves.
>>
>>
> I can think of one reason why one might want a Player:
>
> Imagine a cash-strapped teacher designing a stack with revMedia;
>
> they might think it a bit too much to expect students to go through
> the whole jingbang of registering for revMedia, downloading it
> and installing it a bit of a clunky way to deliver a "quick-n-dirty"
> educational "media-bite".
>
> this might also be applied in situations where there are a number of
> students with computers who do not have internet access (this, oddly
> enough, is always overlooked when these arguments come up).
>
> A Player/Runner + stack will have less of a footprint than revMedia
> + stack
>
> As an advocate of equipping the under-privileged in this world with
> old computers I believe that a Player/Runner is essential; especially
> one that will run stacks on forms of Linux.
>
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> To personalise this I would like to point out that, while I own
> Rev Studio 4 it does not work on my Pentium 3s running Ubuntu 5.10;
> nor does revMedia 4.
>
> I have yet to find out how standalones made with 4 'do' on these  
> computers;
>
> It may well be that they are just too RAM-hungry to function;
>
> a Player/Runner might solve this problem.
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