Re: jmove JavE

In article <3C0...@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>,
   Markus Gebhard <ukg...@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> wrote:

> I think it is not a good idea to provide a JavaScript player and to have
> to add the data by hand.  

Absolutely!  But at the moment I'm just playing and don't mind creating
the HTML to display a movie, by hand. 


> > > I think it is a good idea to mention the locations for the demo
> > > movies we have been talking of - the 'making of' a nerd boy
> > > episode.  The movie is available with the Java Applet player:
> > > www.jave.de/player/demo/demo7.html
> > 
> > I took this to mean that if I visited this URL I'd be able to find
> > the complete definition of a nerd-boy movie, which (?) I'd then be
> > able to edit into a copy of the progress3.html web page and display. 
> > But when I go to the demo7.html page (and other demo pages) all I get
> > is a simple page telling me that I can't use Java.  Am I doing
> > something wrong?

> On those demo pages there are Java applets (the 'JMOV Player' or 'JavE
> player applet') showing one animation each.  Looking at the source code
> of the html you will find the location of the *.jmov files.  They
> contain the animation data.

> The animation file you are looking for is:
> http://www.jave.de/player/demo/hovercraft.zip

OK, I just looked at the JMOV file in that - I take it that this is the
actual movie definition while the values in successive elements of the
"Frames" array in the javascript player are (somehow) derived from the
very much bigger movie definition. 


> As the player software is open source there is no need to worry about
> the compression algorithms.   Joaquim already has ported them to the
> JavaScript player (see the JavaScript demo) and we have added a new type
> of compression that only is available for the JavaScript player.  

Is this what makes the contents of the "Frames" array so much smaller
than the 242K hovercraft JMOV file?  


I think I've misunderstood - I'd been hoping to find, in essence, some
more examples of definitions of "Frames" and "Delay" arrays so that I'd
be able to watch something other than the hovercraft in my browser.


Thanks for taking the time to reply to my questions.

-- 
Jeremy C B Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

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