Grunt, grunt, grunt . . . Just downloaded a trial of 3.5 to my Ubuntu test machine and came up against xanim again
which . . . by-ther-way . . . in no longer available; and has not been for quite some time so stuck for movies in Linux . . . until . . . Please, Please, Please . . . RR 4.0 On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 8:44 PM, Richmond Mathewson < [email protected]> wrote: > Sorry chaps; a hoary old chestnut I know: > > Wondering about trying to present the odd movie clip in a RunRev > stack/standalone > on my Ubuntu boxes in the school . . . > > Shall I embed AVI files and then . . . what? > > Or shall I forgo RunRev and just convert everything to Real Player > (a format I heartily dislike) and then install Real Player (err, dragging > the PCs up 3 flights of stairs, plugging them into the internet, . . . ) > ??? > > Cripes I'm looking forward to RR 4.0; and praying fervently to the > powers that be that one will be able to play movieClips in RR on > Linux without getting seriously bogged down, or even bu**ered > completely (and I don't mean 'margarine'). > > I wonder about using the web capabilities of RR 4.0, storing the > resulting files locally, and viewing them on Linux via either > Mozilla Firefox or a RunRev constructed browser. > > I'm going to sit up all night and see what I can squeeze out of > Ubuntu 8.04 and RR 2.2.1 (actually a combination that in all > other respects is serving me extremely well indeed) and > a variety of clips. > > Bye-the-bye, andbody fossicking around for Film stuff for > teaching purposes could do worse than go here: > > http://www.archive.org/details/opensource_movies > > there's an awful lot of nonsense, but some really quite > useful stuff as well. > > I am also contemplating doing a "whole EFL thing" around > this: > > http://www.bigbuckbunny.org/ > > which is visually stunning, full of 'moral questions' and FREE. > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lifelong learning is living. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
