[Bf-docboard] Education Pages materials

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

Great work! :)

Here at OSX, the quicktime player only does garbled sound. There's a  
free player for OSX though, VLC, which plays it OK. So you could add a  
link to VLC download:
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html
And tell OSXers to load videos to disk first, and play with VLC.

Alternative is Divx, which has a 'validator' program at OSX that makes  
movies playable in OSX too (then still playing correctly at Win).
The status of Linux players is unknown to me.

I would suggest to offer a higher quality video too... if possible. If  
you need assistance for all of this, I can ask around for a volunteer  
to convert them. In what format are the original movies?

What's a bit confusing for me is the commercial offering at the site...  
you intend to make all this material available for free download,  
right? As Open Content or so?

Thanks,

-Ton-


On Monday, Aug 18, 2003, at 19:14 Europe/Amsterdam, Thoenes, Michael A  
wrote:

> I am finally getting my materials up for the Animation class. These  
> are the materials intended for the Education pages at Blender3d.org. I  
> will be expanding the materials over the next 16 weeks. I will  
> coordinate with Matt to begin moving the stuff that is solid over to  
> the Blender3D Education pages. Here is the link for the class web  
> site. Many people have offered assistance and it is greatly  
> appreciated. I will be contacting them shortly as I complete the  
> framework.
>
> http://home.att.net/~blender/index.htm
>
> I got this up last night, so there are still some dead links --- I  
> don't mind you telling me about them. I have a couple of differet  
> things going on in the videos. Iwill use class feedback to fine-tune  
> the video format. Compression is MS-MPEG4-V1 and most vids are under  
> 3MB with some under 1MB. I have tested on windows and Mandrake Linux  
> usine Xine to play the vids.essor and it was good, but not as good as  
> the MS-MPEG4. This may be due to my ignorance. I am open to  
> suggestions and comments.
>
> I have not found agood solution for playing the MS-MPEG4v1 encoded  
> videos on Macintosh OS9. As bledner does not run on this, that may not  
> be an issue. however I would like to know the solution if there is  
> one. Can someone tell me if they run on OSX. I do not have OSX.
>
> Michael
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