| ION: video? [message #40885] |
Mon, 13 September 2004 02:16  |
sandrokan
Messages: 20
Registered: September 2004
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Dear all,
I got an ION script that pushes an image from my server to the remote user
with a call to
TV.
Is it possible to substitute, inside this script, this TV calling with some
call to a routine that shows a video (animated gif, mpg or other)?
Of course I can save the video somewhere and then pass just the
file.address,
but I'm wondering if is it possible somehow else.
Thank you very much in advantage,
Ale
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| Re: ION: video? [message #41045 is a reply to message #40885] |
Wed, 15 September 2004 11:42  |
Rick Towler
Messages: 821
Registered: August 1998
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sandrokan wrote:
> Dear all,
> I got an ION script that pushes an image from my server to the remote user
> with a call to TV.
> Is it possible to substitute, inside this script, this TV calling with some
> call to a routine that shows a video (animated gif, mpg or other)?
> Of course I can save the video somewhere and then pass just the
> file.address, but I'm wondering if is it possible somehow else.
It depends on what you mean by "shows a video".
Check out the ION_OBJECT tag (added in 1.6?) that lets you insert
varied content into a page (including .avi or .mpg files).
Also, ION_IMAGE should work with animated .gifs (but you'll need to
generate the animated gifs outside of IDL using maybe imagemagik).
Before the ION_OBJECT tag, I would simply save ION generated animations
and VRML files with a unique name to a /tmp directory, embed the player
in the output page and pass the url to the player. I would also spawn
an "at" job to clean the file after a set period of time. Works great.
-Rick
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