On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Shouri Chatterjee <[email protected]>wrote:
> > > narendra sisodiya wrote: > > I want to play a swf file(EEL201 lectures) on ubuntu. > > > > OGG is a open standard which is a patent free and royalty free standard. > > http://www.dissurion.com/use-ogg-and-not-mp3/ > > > > PS: hope Shouri Sir and other will consider out request !! > > Short answer: > sudo apt-get install gnash mozilla-plugin-gnash > > > Long answer: > > OGG is an audio format. > > Nope - Ogg can be a video too - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogg#Ogg_codecs > The SWF files are videos (with audio). The graphics in the videos are > vector graphics (which means, a line is an instruction to draw a line > from point A to point B, not a series of pixelated points.) This is > particularly suited to the kind of videos that are in these files. Not > for motion photographs. As a result, the compression in the videos is > excellent. > Compression in the files is a constraint - a 50 min lecture in an > AVI/DIVX/MPEG or any other format would use up a good 200-250 MBs. The > vector graphics in SWF files require only 30 MB. 42 lectures for a > course will use up only 1.3GB, as opposed to 12GB. > > SWF is a popular format. Players are available on windows, macs, linux, > 64-bit linux, solaris - almost everywhere. > > For installation of the SWF player on ubuntu, please include the > medibuntu repositories, and follow the instructions. > http://www.medibuntu.org/ > You can also directly download the flash player from Adobe's website. > They also have a 64-bit flash player in case you need it. > > If you think Adobe is evil, there are several open source flash players > for ubuntu, e.g: gnash. You can easily install this on ubuntu: > sudo apt-get install gnash mozilla-plugin-gnash > > If you know of any other audio-video file format, that uses compressed > vector graphics, can save a 50 min video into 30 MB, has cross platform > player support (windows, linux et al), and at the same time, can be > easily created, please let me know. I use an open source python program > called pyvnc2swf to create the videos. A replacement for this will also > be needed. > > I think you record a screencast into swf file. Yes you are correct bandwidth requirements. For the same reason I am trying to develop Eduvid [1]. > Till then, this discussion almost sounds like why we should not be using > GIF files. > > -Shouri > [1] http://www.slideshare.net/narendra.sisodiya/project-eduvid-presentation -- ┌─────────────────────────┐ │ Narendra Sisodiya ( नरेन्द्र सिसोदिया ) │ R&D Engineer │ Web : http://narendra.techfandu.org │ Twitter : http://tinyurl.com/dz7e4a └─────────────────────────┘ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Do you have another question? Click here - http://groups.google.com/group/iitdlug/post l...@iitd community mailing list -- http://groups.google.com/group/iitdlug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
