From: <jr...@th...> - 2004-04-05 19:03:48
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How hard would it be to implement multimedia support into the buzzword gallery. I have a lot of quicktime clips I'd like to include in some of my galleries. Thanks, -John |
From: Brad T. <br...@ge...> - 2004-04-05 21:29:30
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Hi again, On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 12:03, jr...@th... wrote: > How hard would it be to implement multimedia support into the buzzword ga= llery. > I have a lot of quicktime clips I'd like to include in some of my galleri= es. How funny! Today I just committed a request for .mov and .avi support into the buzzword TODO file so I will be doing the groundwork for it very soon. You might want to wait for the release (0.8.10) which will include these fixes and more before you upgrade to 0.8.9. Expect it to come out in the next one or two days. Also, I'll take into consideration anything that might want included with multimedia support. -Brad --=20 Brad Taylor Genome Software LLC http://www.getcoded.net |
From: Brad T. <br...@ge...> - 2004-04-14 19:37:18
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Hi again, On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 12:03, jr...@th... wrote: > How hard would it be to implement multimedia support into the buzzword ga= llery. > I have a lot of quicktime clips I'd like to include in some of my galleri= es. Jon and I discussed this issue and we couldn't think of a sane way to implement the UI without disturbing the current gallery functionality and still maintain an equal treatment for all filetypes. We have no problem with adding multimedia support but not at the expense of images in the gallery. After all, a gallery is usually just for photos. If you guys have any ideas, please, let us know. -Brad --=20 Brad Taylor Genome Software LLC http://www.getcoded.net |
From: <jr...@th...> - 2004-04-15 21:53:17
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How I envisioned this working was in much the same way as Gallery or some of the other programs deal with movies. The appear inline in the picture gallery either at the end or beginning based on file extension (All files ending in .mov .avi .mpg etc. go at the beginning or end of an album). There are a bunch of icons made up that are used as thumbnails for each filetype. So when the script processes the files, and comes across an avi for eaxample, it says, hey this is not an image, we're not going to run it through imagemagick we'll use this fine thumbnail instead. It doesn't have to do much. When the person clicks on the thumbnail it opens the movie as it would an image. While I agree a allery is usually just for photos, most digital cameras come with the ability to shoot small video clips. A lot of times users will want to include these clips with the rest of the shots from the event. Anyway I realise it's not as simple as I make it sound, especially since I haven't looked at your code so I have no idea how hard it would be to implement. I'm just saying I'm not looking for anything crazy here just a simple way to integrate thos one off movie clips into the gallery. Take care, -John ----- Of course you don't know. You don't know because only I know. If you knew and I didn't know, then you'd be teaching me instead of me teaching you--and for a student to be teaching his teacher is presumptuous and rude. Do I make myself clear? -Mr. Turkentine Quoting Brad Taylor <br...@ge...>: > Hi again, > > On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 12:03, jr...@th... wrote: > > How hard would it be to implement multimedia support into the buzzword > gallery. > > I have a lot of quicktime clips I'd like to include in some of my > galleries. > > Jon and I discussed this issue and we couldn't think of a sane way to > implement the UI without disturbing the current gallery functionality > and still maintain an equal treatment for all filetypes. We have no > problem with adding multimedia support but not at the expense of images > in the gallery. After all, a gallery is usually just for photos. > > If you guys have any ideas, please, let us know. > > -Brad > > -- > Brad Taylor > Genome Software LLC > http://www.getcoded.net > ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. |
From: Jonathan T. <jo...@tg...> - 2004-04-15 23:57:49
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On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 14:22, jr...@th... wrote: > How I envisioned this working was in much the same way as Gallery or some= of the > other programs deal with movies. The appear inline in the picture gallery > either at the end or beginning based on file extension (All files ending = in > .mov .avi .mpg etc. go at the beginning or end of an album). There are a = bunch > of icons made up that are used as thumbnails for each filetype. So when t= he > script processes the files, and comes across an avi for eaxample, it says= , hey > this is not an image, we're not going to run it through imagemagick we'll= use > this fine thumbnail instead. It doesn't have to do much. When the person = clicks > on the thumbnail it opens the movie as it would an image.=20 >=20 Okay, so let me get this straight. =20 On a gallery page, movies show up as thumbnails with a preset thumbnail that we draw. Some kind of stock icon. =20 When the thumbnail is clicked, it opens up the image display page, and instead of displaying an image, the movie is embedded where the image should be? What happens if the movie is too wide/tall? =20 If we embed, then the download image link will become "download movie" and just send the movie except with Content-Type: application/content-stream and everything is happy. =20 OR When the thumbnail is clicked, it just downloads the movie from the server and it opens in a new Windows Media Player / Totem / whatever-standalone-movie-player-you-have window? =20 Drawback to this approach: there is no "download movie" link, since there is no "movie display" page. =20 And ... what about the slideshow? Skip over movies (bad)? Or can we detect when a movie ends with Javascript and jump into the next movie (better)? =20 > While I agree a allery is usually just for photos, most digital cameras c= ome > with the ability to shoot small video clips. A lot of times users will wa= nt to > include these clips with the rest of the shots from the event.=20 >=20 > Anyway I realise it's not as simple as I make it sound, especially since = I > haven't looked at your code so I have no idea how hard it would be to > implement. I'm just saying I'm not looking for anything crazy here just a > simple way to integrate thos one off movie clips into the gallery.=20 >=20 I don't mind implementing this - the way the code was designed, it shouldn't be very hard. It's just the user experience that I haven't been able to nail down. I want to make sure it's intuitive / user-friendly. =20 - Jon --=20 jo...@tg... Administrator, tgpsolutions http://www.tgpsolutions.com |