RE: lingo-l sure-fire cross platform video support?

2002-02-13 Thread Karina Steffens
Sure, if they don't mind installing quicktime. I've also used mpg for video, playing back through QT on mac and video for windows on pc. Grim, I tried that with the project that I described earlier, but director just wanted to play the mpeg as a quicktime - in a test on a PC that didn't

RE: lingo-l sure-fire cross platform video support?

2002-02-13 Thread Karina Steffens
Hey Kerry, I'm not with Tabuleiro, but I've used the Direct Media Xtra. I think there's a good reason for the error on the Mac. Direct Media uses DirectX. Mac doesn't like Intel code ^_^ Sure, but just having the cast member in your cast, causes the alert, and that shouldn't happen - of

Re: lingo-l sure-fire cross platform video support?

2002-02-13 Thread Douglas Seib
has anyone tried wildform's FLIX? this converts video to .swf - rumor has it that as long as you have the flash plugin, you can watch the video...I have not experimented with it yet, but plan to in the near future: www.wildform.com let me know if you have any luck, I've heard great things about

Re: lingo-l sure-fire cross platform video support?

2002-02-13 Thread Colin Holgate
has anyone tried wildform's FLIX? this converts video to .swf - rumor has it that as long as you have the flash plugin, you can watch the video...I have not experimented with it yet, but plan to in the near future: I have it, and not only does it do video in Flash without extra plug-in's (just

RE: lingo-l sure-fire cross platform video support?

2002-02-13 Thread Kerry Thompson
Sure, but just having the cast member in your cast, causes the alert, and that shouldn't happen - of course it can't work, but it could have done that silently, so people could have two versions of the movie in their cast, and display the appropriate one for the platform. That makes a lot

lingo-l sure-fire cross platform video support?

2002-02-12 Thread Clars Danvold
Hello all- I was wondering there was anyone willing to discuss a general approch, that resulted in a sure-fire, fool-proof way of supporting digital video, running in a projector on cross-platform CDrom. I would go with QT and use quickTimePresent() and quickTimeVersion() to check the plugin,

RE: lingo-l sure-fire cross platform video support?

2002-02-12 Thread Sean Wilson
I was wondering there was anyone willing to discuss a general approch, that resulted in a sure-fire, fool-proof way of supporting digital video, running in a projector on cross-platform CDrom. I would go with QT and use quickTimePresent() and quickTimeVersion() to check the plugin, then

Re: lingo-l sure-fire cross platform video support?

2002-02-12 Thread Karina Steffens
FWIW, I reckon QT has to be the best bet - depending on quality/codec/windowSize issues. The major hiccup is that you need to restart your projector after an install. And work around the flashes. Well, yes and no... Depending on just how sure you want to be, and who your potential clients

Re: lingo-l sure-fire cross platform video support?

2002-02-12 Thread grimmwerks
Sure, if they don't mind installing quicktime. I've also used mpg for video, playing back through QT on mac and video for windows on pc. On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Clars Danvold wrote: Hello all- I was wondering there was anyone willing to discuss a general approch, that resulted in a