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
>>
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>>
>> 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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