Another (slightly silly) way to show animations on Linux

Pierre Sahores psahores at free.fr
Fri Jul 17 07:07:06 EDT 2009


Hello Richmond,

Does the playback work as fluently as in using as a QT or WMV  
videoplayer ? i will test your proposal as soon as possible...

Kind Regards,
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Pierre Sahores
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Le 17 juil. 09 à 11:32, Richmond Mathewson a écrit :

> Horribly wasteful in terms of file size, but guarantees no  
> dependency on
> external components.
>
> This will allow you to show a SILENT "film sequence":
>
> 1.  Export your movie file to images (say 25 per second).
>
> 2. Import them into a hidden card in your stack [think BLOATWARE].
>
> 3. On the card where you want to present the film/animation;
>
>   set up a button that has the exact dimensions of the images
>
>   set the Button title to HIDDEN.
>
> 4.  Pop a script like this into your button:
>
> on mouseUp
> put 1003 into FRAMEK
> repeat for 356 times
>   add 1 to FRAMEK
>   set the icon of btn "Button" to FRAMEK
>   wait 2 ticks
> end repeat
> end mouseUp
>
> I am not uploading my example stack anywhere, because with
> 356 frames of 256 Grayscale PNGs it weighs in at 11.5 MB.
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> The only POSSIBLE advantages of this method are the lack of
> dependence on external stuff such as MPlayer, and that it
> guarantees that the images look how they should, rather
> than the way a lot of image "go funny" when made into an
> animated GIF.
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