is '/usr/Application/bin' the exact path, or is it supposed to be your
xsi Application/bin directory? Just curious before I have our systems
guys do anything with it.
Greg
On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 21:32 +0200, Stefan Andersson wrote:
> You can also try this (taken from XSIbase Linux thread)
> --------------------------------------------
> Openquicktime -
> Allows you to create Quicktime previews via XSI (extract to
> /usr/Application/bin)
>
> http://www.xsimontreal.com/images/openquicktime4.tar.bz2
> Note: This is not Officially supported by Softimage
> --------------------------------------------
>
> That way you can at least create quicktimes from the flipbook... But
> it's not really a good solution.
>
> regards
> stefan
>
>
> On 6/28/06, Greg Smith <greg(at)stanwinston.com> wrote:
> > 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 Ãcrit :
> > > >> 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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