Bert Freudenberg wrote:
There is VideoFlow which is pretty cool (scroll down to the screenshots): http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/2411 If it's just for playback, the only cross-plattform option right now is MPEG for which we have a general plugin. For Mac and Windows, the Sophie folks made nice players via FFI, based on QuickTime I think. On Linux there is a GStreamer plugin. For camera access, there is Scratch's x-platform CameraPlugin. Etoys on Linux uses a V4L plugin. For Windows there is a "DShowVideoDecoderPlugin".
I think most things that Bert mentions are open source, apart perhaps from the Scratch plugin. As it is cross-platform, the Scratch CameraPlugin sounds great for future versions of Squeak or Etoys, except that it may possibly be released under the Scratch or Scratch source licenses, which forbid commercial use. Anyone know if that is true?
On 22/04/10 14:21, David Corking wrote:
Bert Freudenberg wrote:
There is VideoFlow which is pretty cool (scroll down to the screenshots): http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/2411 If it's just for playback, the only cross-plattform option right now is MPEG for which we have a general plugin. For Mac and Windows, the Sophie folks made nice players via FFI, based on QuickTime I think. On Linux there is a GStreamer plugin. For camera access, there is Scratch's x-platform CameraPlugin. Etoys on Linux uses a V4L plugin. For Windows there is a "DShowVideoDecoderPlugin".
I think most things that Bert mentions are open source, apart perhaps from the Scratch plugin. As it is cross-platform, the Scratch CameraPlugin sounds great for future versions of Squeak or Etoys, except that it may possibly be released under the Scratch or Scratch source licenses, which forbid commercial use. Anyone know if that is true? _______________________________________________ Beginners mailing list Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners
Both the "Scratch" plugin and the "Camera" plugin are open source and can be used in commercial app's AFAIK. You can get the source from:
http://info.scratch.mit.edu/Source_Code
Hold your breath and the Scratch Camera plugin may be hooked into Squeak and Etoys in the next day or so ;-)
Derek O'Connell wrote:
Both the "Scratch" plugin and the "Camera" plugin are open source and can be used in commercial app's AFAIK. You can get the source from:
I think we have crossed wires between yours and my understanding of the phrase "open source". That page says: "The Scratch source code license allows you to distribute derivative works based on the Scratch source code for non-commercial uses subject to the following restrictions ..."
The Squeak license, and the Open Source definition are much more liberal than that. For example, they allow a company or foundation to pre-load software on a device and sell it. But as Bert said, we have John Maloney's letter that opens up the plugins: http://tracker.squeakland.org/secure/attachment/13870/ScratchPlugin-Permissi...
On 22.04.2010, at 15:21, David Corking wrote:
Bert Freudenberg wrote:
There is VideoFlow which is pretty cool (scroll down to the screenshots): http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/2411 If it's just for playback, the only cross-plattform option right now is MPEG for which we have a general plugin. For Mac and Windows, the Sophie folks made nice players via FFI, based on QuickTime I think. On Linux there is a GStreamer plugin. For camera access, there is Scratch's x-platform CameraPlugin. Etoys on Linux uses a V4L plugin. For Windows there is a "DShowVideoDecoderPlugin".
I think most things that Bert mentions are open source, apart perhaps from the Scratch plugin. As it is cross-platform, the Scratch CameraPlugin sounds great for future versions of Squeak or Etoys, except that it may possibly be released under the Scratch or Scratch source licenses, which forbid commercial use. Anyone know if that is true?
Now this is a bit off-topic for the newbies list, but the Scratch folks are interested in having their plugins in the main Squeak VM, so they do not have to package and maintain them themselves for ever. E.g. for the ScratchPlugin we have a letter to that extent: http://tracker.squeakland.org/browse/SQ-354 It has not happened yet mainly because nobody made it their top-priority to get these plugins into the VM.
It would help of course if the Scratch plugins were simply released under the MIT license, to remove all doubt.
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