It's a good question indeed. I think we all should avoid the use of proprietary codec. It's not in the open software spirit of squeak. I'm working with Mac, NeXTstep and Linux so I am not able to play WMV9/10 format. Realplayer and Quicktime Sorenson don't work everywhere too. I'm starting to do videos too; the goal is to build tutorial of seaside for friends (and soon everybody with my website) who don't know anything about smalltalk (but java/php). I chose DivX codec. It runs everywhere. The robot of one of my friend which is built with ARM9 cpu can read it.
So Andrew, choose divx too. It's not a good format for streaming but it works well and it compressed more. Remember to use easy-to-read font.
-- Martial
Offray Vladimir Luna Crdenas a écrit : | Hi all, | | Bert Freudenberg escribió: | > | >On Nov 17, 2006, at 5:57 , Andrew Burton wrote: | > | >>Is there a "standard" format for video in the Squeak community? I | >>noticed that most of the Croquet videos were in Quicktime format, and | >>I wasn't sure if that carried over to here as well. | >> | >>I ask, because I put together a small video about building a simple | >>calculator in Squeak, but it's in the WMV format. Is that | >>acceptable? Thanks. | >> | >>Also, if anyone's interested, here's the video: | >>http://profnano.org/code/squeak/Squeak_SimpleCalc.wmv | > | >Works for me on a Mac, but only because I installed Flip4Mac. I assume | >it will work on Win, don't know about Linux. | > | >Generally we prefer something that can be played on Mac and Unix and | >Windows, if possible without any additional software. I think only | >MPEG fits that, and it even can be played back by Squeak. Flash movies | >work pretty well across platforms, too, that's what Google Video or | >YouTube use. | > | >- Bert - | > | | | As a Linux user I prefer a format that can have players packaged by | default on Linux distros without any patents or other concerns. Your | video doesn't give me more that audio on my Ubuntu Linux machine and | would be nice to see the video you want to share with us. | | I really appreciate your concern about proper formats for free | information interchange. Thanks a lot, | | Offray | _______________________________________________ | Beginners mailing list | Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org | http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners