[Ming-users] New - but willing to work and learn

[Bryan A. <bh...@of...>]

I really want to use Ming from Perl.  My platform is Debian (Sarge),
including apache 1.3.31-7, and perl 5.8.4-3.

I got and installed Ming 0.3 beta 1 from the Ming home page.  A little
work (reading) got me the necessary zlib, ungif, and png12; fixed
Makefile.PL to reference those libs, and I was able to make, perl
Makefile.PL, make, make test, and make install -- only took a few hours of
banging my head.

I have 4 questions:
1) I can make simple movies, had some trouble with direct output from
perl.pl to a browser (rather than saving to a swf).  I have read about
Apache::SWF, does this fix that problem?

2) I can't get the streamMp3 to work, yet I find other people's demos do
play, so I believe it can work.  Perl reports segment violation when I try
to compile.

3) I grabbed the latest direct from the sourceforge CVS, but it fails to
compile.  It fails to make in perl_ext in function XS_SWF__Movie_xs_output
because fileOutputMethod is undeclared.

4) From a development point of view, what is the feeling about PHP, perl,
or just using the library?  I don't need interaction, all I want to do is
compile static SWF files.  Is the perl wrapper to Ming full and complete?
Is PHP better?  Should I really just program in C or C++ and call the
library?  I'd love to see more C or C++ examples.

All / any comments are appreciated