Re: Images and ProgressBars

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 02:46 -0500, Paul Davis wrote:
> >You might also consider making a gstreamer plugin for your non-standard
> >format. Then you could reuse a lot of gstreamer/totem code.
> >
> >  
> >
> My first thoughts are that this would be alot more work than its worth.  
> One of the issues with my app is that it is quite necessary to play the 
> animation in reverse.  The app is intended for people to sit down and 
> analyze time lapse footage of living cell cultures.  So there's a lot of 
> forward - reverse - pause - step forward - step forward... type of 
> action going on.  The only reason I mention this is because this little 
> fact basically prohibits me from using mpeg's to write a streaming 
> client so people can use this app from outside our network ( An analysis 
> can cover a couple gigs of data).  Any how it is a thought and I'll 
> check it out.

The gstreamer guys are sure to have some useful ideas at least.

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