Re: [Celestia-developers] Fwd: celestia QT4 on linux (movie support)
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From: Fridger S. <fri...@de...> - 2012-04-17 17:38:06
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Selden, On 04/17/2012 07:00 PM, Selden E Ball Jr wrote: > > My impression is that manu, if not most, people share videos > bu using one of the manhy video hosting services. Don't most of them > convert whatever is uploaded to a more popular format? > > Wikipedia claims that Dailymotion (the #2 service) uses OGG format. While I have never used such services ( ;-) ), are you really saying that whenever you come across an .ogg video clip in shatters.net you'd undertake the effort of looking up such a hosting service first, upload that clip and wait for the converted result before glancing at it??? [I am sure you have VLC installed ;-)...] Hmm... From counting the number of downloads of my own video clips in CelestialMatters, I made an entirely different quantitative experience: If I upload my videos in MS compatible format, the number of downloads is MUCH higher on average than for .ogg format.... That was the basis of my remarks below. Fridger > s. > > >> While my knowledge about video stuff is somewhat superficial, let me >> nevertheless make a few repsective comments wrto Bernard's Theora patch >> and Nils' "optionalization" thereof: >> One may certainly ask whether it's a good idea to go again for a video >> format (Ogg Theora) that offers besides good performance also a >> remarkable amount of incompatibility with the most established players >> outside Linux. There are only three cross-platform players that support >> the Theora format: VLC, Miro 4 and MPlayer. Neither seems terribly >> popular among the far dominating Windows community. >> Fortunately, Firefox> 3.5 also plays .ogg format! It works fine as I >> checked, yet there are many users indeed that still enjoy Internet >> Explorer, MS Media Player and nothing else! What remains for Theora fans >> is the frustrating fact that only a tiny fraction of people out there >> will be able to look at their great Celestia video creations in .ogg >> format... >> On the other hand, we may also share Bernard's view that with his patch >> Celestia-Qt at least receives some basic video capabilities which is >> certainly better than nothing. >> Anyway this situation leaves me with split feelings. Personally, I'd >> prefer some further investigation about some possibly existing >> alternative video support with both good /cross-platform acceptance/ and >> performance. >> Opinions? >> Fridger >> PS: @Nils/@Bernard: Were you able to actually test your patches for >> MAC-OS? Are you using MACs besides Linux? > >> On 04/17/2012 04:26 PM, Nils Larsson wrote: >>> lördagen den 14 april 2012 15:55:54 skrev Bernard GODARD: >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> I am proposing again this patch which seems to have been forgotten. It >>>> would not be good to release the QT4 version of celestia without movie >>>> support on Linux. I know the patch implements very basic support but >>>> it's better than nothing. >>>> >>>> Thanks. >>> +1 >>> >>> Attached patch is Bernard's qt-linux-build-fix-and-theora.diff but with theora >>> support optional. >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> Better than sec? Nothing is better than sec when it comes to >>> monitoring Big Data applications. Try Boundary one-second >>> resolution app monitoring today. Free. >>> http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-dev2dev >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Celestia-developers mailing list >>> Cel...@li... >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/celestia-developers > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Better than sec? Nothing is better than sec when it comes to > monitoring Big Data applications. Try Boundary one-second > resolution app monitoring today. Free. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Celestia-developers mailing list > Cel...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/celestia-developers |