If you have openquicktime installed, Flipbook will load,play and Export to Quicktime. There is a thread on the base with some info regarding Linux in General as with XSI.
http://www.xsibase.com/forum/index.php?board=9;action=display;threadid=23898
Will
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From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Greg Smith
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 2:06 PM
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Subject: Re: How come its so hard for the Penguin to sing and dance
Not sure if its how we are setup here, but the only thing we can get to work in Flipbook are image sequences. Any type of video format seems to not work, I get "No file parser to read this image type".
On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 12:49 -0500, Joe Laffey wrote:
> >
> > Greg Smith a écrit :
> >> Is it me or is there a severe lack of multimedia functionality in Linux.
> >> It seems that most of the video players for linux are just simple
> >> players, none extended functionality that us visual effects people,
> >> desire. I can't fathom the idea that there is no decent high end
> >> media player for linux that supports all the common file formats,
> >> that allows for both audio and video, frame stepping (front and
> >> back), or frame rate change, looping, pretty much all the necessary
> >> tools that any animator would need for referencing video footage
> >> for, oh lets say, facial animation. Hell I would even appreciate a
> >> working flipbook in Linux, but anything other than image sequences,
> >> and it just doesn't work. We've tried VLC, pfPlay, MPlayer, as well
> >> as some others, but none seem to yield to our desires. Major bummer..
> >> How abouts does everyone else go about this?? is Wine or CrossOver
> >> the only options. Thats a big WTF.
>
> Does Flipbook not work on linux? I know it doesn't do sound, but aside
> from the lasck of an A/B compare, it does most everything I need. I
> like simple, consise apps that do one thing--well.
>
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