Flash - Smash! Poo! I have a feeling that if we all make an effort we can leverage the revLets and the web plug-in to leave Flash far behind.
And, while we are on the subject; there are other, less obvious,ways to provide animation and so on on RR. A while back (wait until I am back in Bulgaria to reference my stack on this) I found that one can export a movie as a series of still images, import them on some hidden card, and then set them through a repeat loop as icons for a button or imagedata or, or, or . . . there are quite a few possibilities (animated GIFS ???): the problem with this method is that sound gets lost. As far as I can see just now the main things that would be 'lost' without the QT leverage would be synchronised sound with 'movies' and QTVR. So, as far as I can see, if one makes a bit of an effort one should be able to do all the things that RR currently gets via QT without QT. What is needed is for US, ALL to spend a bit of time running up example stacks on how this can be done. On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Bernard Devlin <[email protected]> wrote: > I have to agree with François. > > There is no way that RunRev on their own could produce a multimedia > tool to equal QT. We just have to hope that QT will be developed in > such a way that in the future it will still work with those tools that > edit QT movies. It's a poor show that Apple does not provide any idea > about where QT is going, 18 months after QT X was first announced to > developers. When this is seen along with the deprecation of past > development information, there is not much else than hope. It may be > that there will be a new set of cross-platform APIs, but there is no > sign of that. > > Perhaps it is time that RunRev started to look at providing a Flash > player object. After all, there are open source actionscript > compilers, and quite a few open source development tools for Flash. > At least that would reduce the dependency on Quicktime alone. > > Bernard > > 2009/9/9 François Chaplais <[email protected]>: > > > > Le 9 sept. 09, à 11:28, Richmond Mathewson a écrit : > > > >> I believe it is in Runtime Revolution's interests to free themselves > from > >> a > >> dependence > >> on Quicktime; preferably "rolling their own" stuff to handle multimedia: > > > This is inconsistent. QTX is Apple rewriting as set of API for Quicktime; > > and, as for most software products, the first release is not fully > > satisfying. > > You expect runrev, whose core expertise, IMHO, is not video, to do a > better > > job at it: starting from scratch to produce their own multimedia package. > _______________________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
