Re: [SLUG] Auntie excludes us

2008-03-15 Thread Marghanita da Cruz
Amos Shapira wrote: On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 1:54 AM, Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This one time, at band camp, James Dumay wrote: Its bullshit that people think that this sort of stuff needs to be done in flv - embedding an mpeg stream is easy enough todo in HTML.

Re: [SLUG] Auntie excludes us

2008-03-15 Thread Peter Miller
On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 20:58 +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 at 12:56, Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This one time, at band camp, Ken Wilson wrote: Getting sound to play with animation in the way and the repetition and timeing that the artist wants just

Re: [SLUG] Auntie excludes us

2008-03-15 Thread Jeremy Visser
On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 13:06 +1100, Rev Simon Rumble wrote: We *have* flash. Without fullscreen mode. Enjoy your telly in a postage stamp. As of Flash 9.0.115, this is no longer the case. Fullscreen works on Linux, too (and H.264 support). -- Jeremy Visser

Re: [SLUG] Auntie excludes us

2008-03-14 Thread Amos Shapira
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 1:54 AM, Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This one time, at band camp, James Dumay wrote: Its bullshit that people think that this sort of stuff needs to be done in flv - embedding an mpeg stream is easy enough todo in HTML. Indeed, it's insane and

Re: [SLUG] Auntie excludes us

2008-03-13 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 at 12:56, Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This one time, at band camp, Ken Wilson wrote: Getting sound to play with animation in the way and the repetition and timeing that the artist wants just works in flash. In HTML there are issues, Many options are not

Re: [SLUG] Auntie excludes us

2008-03-12 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
This one time, at band camp, James Purser wrote: With regard to your query regarding a Linux version - due to the technical requirements of ABC Now we have been unable to find a robust and secure tool for making the Flash based code into a stable Linux version at this time.

Re: [SLUG] Auntie excludes us

2008-03-12 Thread James Dumay
XUL is Mozilla only (open source lockin anyone?) Its bullshit that people think that this sort of stuff needs to be done in flv - embedding an mpeg stream is easy enough todo in HTML. James On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This one time, at band camp,

Re: [SLUG] Auntie excludes us

2008-03-12 Thread Rod Butcher
James Dumay wrote: XUL is Mozilla only (open source lockin anyone?) Its bullshit that people think that this sort of stuff needs to be done in flv - embedding an mpeg stream is easy enough todo in HTML. This reminds me of the problems St George Bank had using Java applets and acres of bad

Re: [SLUG] Auntie excludes us

2008-03-12 Thread Bruce Bruen
On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:30:33 pm Rod Butcher wrote: This reminds me of the problems St George Bank had using Java applets and acres of bad javascript to allow online banking. After thousands of complaints they dropped the Java applet and javascript and reverted to (gasp) html forms. No more

Re: [SLUG] Auntie excludes us

2008-03-12 Thread Rod Butcher
Bruce Bruen wrote: On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:30:33 pm Rod Butcher wrote: This reminds me of the problems St George Bank had using Java applets and acres of bad javascript to allow online banking. After thousands of complaints they dropped the Java applet and javascript and reverted to (gasp) html

Re: [SLUG] Auntie excludes us

2008-03-12 Thread Darren Hannah
I'm not so sure I agree. I've had a quick play around with the ABC Playback website and it all seems to work for me. The ABC Now website seems to require Microsoft Windows Media Player or Real Player to see video. The ABC Playback website seems to require Adobe Flash Player. And as far as I can

Re: [SLUG] Auntie excludes us

2008-03-12 Thread Ken Wilson
Getting sound to play with animation in the way and the repetition and timeing that the artist wants just works in flash. In HTML there are issues, Many options are not there, or not obvious. Flash animations are also much smaller in file size than animated giffs (x10). Ken James Dumay

Re: [SLUG] Auntie excludes us

2008-03-12 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
This one time, at band camp, James Dumay wrote: XUL is Mozilla only (open source lockin anyone?) That's platform-independent! We're talking a binary blob application here, so there's no reason it couldn't be distributed as a custom XULrunner binary blob for multiple platforms. Better yet,

Re: [SLUG] Auntie excludes us

2008-03-12 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
This one time, at band camp, Ken Wilson wrote: Getting sound to play with animation in the way and the repetition and timeing that the artist wants just works in flash. In HTML there are issues, Many options are not there, or not obvious. Flash animations are also much smaller in file size

Re: [SLUG] Auntie excludes us

2008-03-12 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
This one time, at band camp, Darren Hannah wrote: The ABC Playback website seems to require Adobe Flash Player. And as far as I can tell, it seems that everything to do with the video streaming and the menus and navigation and all that malarkey is flash. If you want to use the ABC Playback

Re: [SLUG] Auntie excludes us

2008-03-12 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
This one time, at band camp, James Dumay wrote: Perhaps this would make a good open source project to produce a player (and perhaps the backend services) needed for Television stations to distribute their media. More likely, reverse-engineer where the streams are coming from, how

Re: [SLUG] Auntie excludes us

2008-03-12 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008, Rev Simon Rumble wrote: This one time, at band camp, James Dumay wrote: Perhaps this would make a good open source project to produce a player (and perhaps the backend services) needed for Television stations to distribute their media. More likely,

Re: [SLUG] Auntie excludes us

2008-03-12 Thread James Dumay
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This one time, at band camp, James Dumay wrote: XUL is Mozilla only (open source lockin anyone?) That's platform-independent! We're talking a binary blob application here, so there's no reason it couldn't be

[SLUG] Auntie excludes us

2008-03-11 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
ABC website users will soon be able to watch TV shows in full-screen format. http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/03/12/2187599.htm The link on the front page to register for ABC Playback (http://www.abc.net.au/playback/) doesn't work. Certainly if the experience with ABC Now is anything to

Re: [SLUG] Auntie excludes us

2008-03-11 Thread James Purser
On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 16:18 +1100, Rev Simon Rumble wrote: ABC website users will soon be able to watch TV shows in full-screen format. http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/03/12/2187599.htm The link on the front page to register for ABC Playback (http://www.abc.net.au/playback/)