Latest on Video for Squeak?

Alan Kay Alan.Kay at disney.com
Tue Aug 15 04:20:16 UTC 2000


Thanks Karl --

Well, the urgent current need is for an mpeg plugin player that we 
can use on all platforms ...

Cheers,

Alan

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At 6:28 PM +0200 8/14/00, Karl Ramberg wrote:
>http://heroinewarrior.com/
>
>They have made Quicktime for Linux, libmpeg2-1.1.5, and some other stuff.
>Source code under GPL mostly. Some wizard should be able to make a mpeg plugin
>in a few seconds...;-)
>
>A more useful plugin to both encode and decode, and use the free 
>codecs is a bigger job
>but most of is there. Wish I knew C...
>
>Karl
>
>
>Alan Kay wrote:
>>
>>  Mark --
>>
>>  This is an important issue, but it goes deeper than Quicktime (which
>>  I don't believe yet runs e.g. on Linux,is huge, etc., etc.).
>>
>>  We need a public domain high compression movie player that we can use
>>  as a Squeak plugin on all platforms, and perhaps that is happy with
>>  some current standard like MPEG2.
>>
>>  Someone must have done one of these in Open Source Land somewhere (?????)
>>
>>  Cheers,
>>
>>  Alan
>>
>>  -------
>>
>>  At 9:58 AM -0400 8/14/00, Mark Guzdial wrote:
>>  >I'm advising a colleague on a programming language to use for
>>  >developing a video-based case library for teachers on how to teach
>>  >using design activities.  He's leaning toward SuperCard or Java, and
>>  >I'm encouraging him to consider Python as well.  But, of course,
>>  >what I'd really like to recommend is Squeak -- but video with Squeak
>>  >is fairly difficult.  There are SqueakMovies, but the conversion
>>  >between his videos in QuickTime and SqueakMovies will be ardurous.
>>  >
>>  >What's the latest on QuickTime in Squeak?  I've seen Jim Benson's
>>  >FFI QuickTime for Windows, and it's gorgeous.  There was talk for
>>  >awhile around here about MPEG for Squeak.  What's the latest on any
>>  >form of video for Squeak?
>>  >
>>  >Thanks!
>>  >  Mark
>>  >--------------------------
>>  >Mark Guzdial : Georgia Tech : College of Computing : Atlanta, GA 30332-0280
>>  >Associate Professor - Learning Sciences & Technologies.
>>  >Collaborative Software Lab - http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/csl/
>>  >(404) 894-5618 : Fax (404) 894-0673 : guzdial at cc.gatech.edu
>>  >http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/people/Faculty/Mark.Guzdial.html





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