Embedded Movies & Linux

Richmond Mathewson richmondmathewson at gmail.com
Mon Jun 22 14:47:14 EDT 2009


Grunt, grunt, grunt . . .
Just downloaded a trial of 3.5 to my Ubuntu test machine and came up against
xanim again

which . . . by-ther-way . . . in no longer available; and has not been for
quite some time

so stuck for movies in Linux . . . until . . . Please, Please, Please . . .
RR 4.0

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 8:44 PM, Richmond Mathewson <
richmondmathewson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sorry chaps; a hoary old chestnut I know:
>
> Wondering about trying to present the odd movie clip in a RunRev
> stack/standalone
> on my Ubuntu boxes in the school . . .
>
> Shall I embed AVI files and then . . . what?
>
> Or shall I forgo RunRev and just convert everything to Real Player
> (a format I heartily dislike) and then install Real Player (err, dragging
> the PCs up 3 flights of stairs, plugging them into the internet, . . . )
> ???
>
> Cripes I'm looking forward to RR 4.0; and praying fervently to the
> powers that be that one will be able to play movieClips in RR on
> Linux without getting seriously bogged down, or even bu**ered
> completely (and I don't mean 'margarine').
>
> I wonder about using the web capabilities of RR 4.0, storing the
> resulting files locally, and viewing them on Linux via either
> Mozilla Firefox or a RunRev constructed browser.
>
> I'm going to sit up all night and see what I can squeeze out of
> Ubuntu 8.04 and RR 2.2.1 (actually a combination that in all
> other respects is serving me extremely well indeed) and
> a variety of clips.
>
> Bye-the-bye, andbody fossicking around for Film stuff for
> teaching purposes could do worse than go here:
>
> http://www.archive.org/details/opensource_movies
>
> there's an awful lot of nonsense, but some really quite
> useful stuff as well.
>
> I am also contemplating doing a "whole EFL thing" around
> this:
>
> http://www.bigbuckbunny.org/
>
> which is visually stunning, full of 'moral questions' and FREE.
>



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