> > OK, Raster is doing much more. If you look at > > http://www.rasterman.com/files/rage_08.jpg he also has thumbnails for > > different positions in the stream. So let us say 20 thumbnails and > > this pushes the 3 seconds to 1 minute. > > Are they 20 animated thumbnails? (I don't have the video handy.) At > any rate, however long it takes, the idea is that this is a background > task.
My 2c It seems to me 20+ animated thumbnails on top of a video would irritate me, give me headaches and just generally not be user friendly. However the idea itself is sound, if you could look at AVI files as a series of chapters, it would be cool. Take for instance an fxd file addition; <video> <file id="f1">some.avi</file> <chapter id="1" start="2:30" end="7:40" /> <chapter id="2" start="7:40" end="15:10" /> . . . </video> This would go someway to providing similar DVD functionality in avi files, if we could read the chapters from a DVD (or possibly a web service?) after ripping then we've got quite cool functionality for simple avi files. if thumbnails are taken of the start of each chapter, then possibly a video preview for when they're selected that would rock. I doubt that the thumbs depicted in the rasterman/rage image would be animated unless he smokes an awful lot of crack. It just wouldn't make sense to have all that video on screen simultaneously, however a play on hover is good. I'd imagine that the best visual solution for this would be a waxing and waning type playback, where as the cursor moves toward a thumbnail it triggers playback of the previews first slow until the item is selected, when the cursor leaves the playback slows until a stop. The playback speed would be a function of the cursor distance from the object, with a maximum of 5 items playing at once, 2 slow items (1fps) 2 medium speed (5fps) and 1 full speed (15fps), of course with the slow/medium speed items they aren't just playing video at 1fps, they are actually playing the video at 1/15th normal speed, basically just one frame from the 15fps video per second. I think that my example speeds are a little bizarre and would probably need some investigation, but either way its a cool idea. ;) K, ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
