Re: Playing a movie in Linux
Richmond, presumably you used the command to set which the movie player is? You did set videoClipPlayer and gave the full path of the executable? I've never done this, but it sounds like it ought to work. Yes, the instructions in the dictionary on what is the default do seem a little out of time. Maybe the answer is, go out to shell and do the command in the shell. If you do call it from a shell script, you will not have to give the absolute path, just the command with the appropriate command line parameters should do. On what the default player is, it will likely depend on the DTE as well as the distro. With Gnome, it will be mplayer. With a KDE install, it will be the KDE player. A bit like, if you are using Evolution for email, it will open the Gnome browser unless you set the properties and tell it different. If you are using kmail, even on a basically Gnome system, it will open links in Konqueror. We don't often do video, but the other day someone filmed a clip, copied it from camera to desktop, and it it simply played as soon as we opened it without any further intervention. So if you do use the shell, it should work fine. -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Playing-a-movie-in-Linux-tp229p2292957.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Playing a movie in Linux
On 07/18/2010 12:24 PM, Peter Alcibiades wrote: Richmond, presumably you used the command to set which the movie player is? You did set videoClipPlayer and gave the full path of the executable? I've never done this, but it sounds like it ought to work. Yes, the instructions in the dictionary on what is the default do seem a little out of time. Maybe the answer is, go out to shell and do the command in the shell. If you do call it from a shell script, you will not have to give the absolute path, just the command with the appropriate command line parameters should do. On what the default player is, it will likely depend on the DTE as well as the distro. With Gnome, it will be mplayer. With a KDE install, it will be the KDE player. A bit like, if you are using Evolution for email, it will open the Gnome browser unless you set the properties and tell it different. If you are using kmail, even on a basically Gnome system, it will open links in Konqueror. We don't often do video, but the other day someone filmed a clip, copied it from camera to desktop, and it it simply played as soon as we opened it without any further intervention. So if you do use the shell, it should work fine. The problem; and it is a problem, is that embedded videoClips seem to crash the IDE and as each distro and / or window manager works with a different movie player end-users of standalines would (quite how, one wonders) have to set pathways both for non-embedded video materials and for their specific video player. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Playing a movie in Linux
Whether this posting consists of more on the topic or moron the topic has yet to be seen . . . On 07/17/2010 11:41 AM, Richmond wrote: snip 1. As one has to leverage mplayer embedded movies are 'off'. Consequences of this: 1.1. The poor old end-user will have to 'fart around' (it has always amazed me how British slang phrases are generally more robust than American ones) with file pathways and so forth; unless, of course, somebody can work out how to manage relative pathways on Linux . . . Tried playing an embedded movie with Xfmedia: on mouseUp set the videoClipPlayer to /usr/bin/xfmedia play videoClip OINK.mov end mouseUp [ Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V from the keyboard pasted into Mozilla Thunderbird ] The videoClip started playing (admittedly only the music because I don't have the codex / codecs installed) and then the whole of RunRev 4.0 crashed. Whether the carsh happended DURING the time the videoClip was playing or subsequently I really couldn't say. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Playing a movie in Linux
What was I saying about morons? On 07/17/2010 06:40 PM, Richmond wrote: Whether this posting consists of more on the topic or moron the topic has yet to be seen . . . On 07/17/2010 11:41 AM, Richmond wrote: snip 1. As one has to leverage mplayer embedded movies are 'off'. Consequences of this: 1.1. The poor old end-user will have to 'fart around' (it has always amazed me how British slang phrases are generally more robust than American ones) with file pathways and so forth; unless, of course, somebody can work out how to manage relative pathways on Linux . . . Tried playing an embedded movie with Xfmedia: on mouseUp set the videoClipPlayer to /usr/bin/xfmedia play videoClip OINK.mov end mouseUp [ Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V from the keyboard pasted into Mozilla Thunderbird ] The videoClip started playing (admittedly only the music because I don't have the codex / codecs installed) and then the whole of RunRev 4.0 crashed. Whether the carsh happended DURING the time the videoClip was playing or subsequently I really couldn't say. So, I thought I would try to find a free, legal movie download from the internet (having previously been using a 15 second rip from a kids DVD I use for teaching purposes - Peppa Pig); well, as long as you are happy with porno you are spoilt for choice; otherwise a bit of a tough call! Anyway I found an OGG video clip of some really stomach-churning cinema intermission from the USA in about 1950; Happy Father's day Dad! [ fair gave me the dry boke ]. Suffix is .ogv; plays on my Linux box quite satisfactorily in all the movie players I mentioned in my previous posting. Embedded: sound plays and then the IDE crashes! External and Reffed: the videoPlayer becomes strangely transparent allowing me to see part of my desktop picture through it; sound plays. Masochists among you may feel the urge to download my stack, which I have bundled with the movie: http://andregarzia.on-rev.com/richmond/STUFF/KINO.tar.gz 4.5 MB download if you are expecting aesthetics get over it now; this is really crude stuff; both the look of the stack and the awful videoClip . . . :) ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
