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Re: ION: video? [message #41045 is a reply to message #40885]

Wed, 15 September 2004 11:42

Rick Towler
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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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		ION: video? By: sandrokan on Mon, 13 September 2004 02:16
		Re: ION: video? By: sandrokan on Fri, 17 September 2004 06:07
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