| Re: AVIs for the Mac [message #63890 is a reply to message #63734] |
Fri, 21 November 2008 08:44   |
Dan Larson
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On Nov 21, 10:15 am, Vince Hradil <vincehra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 21, 9:11 am, Dan Larson <dlar...@aecom.yu.edu> wrote:
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>> Thanks to all those who downloaded the movie, ran it on their Mac, and
>> then proceeded to outdo one another with compression efficiency ;-)
>> In my defense, the reason why I return the uncompressed movie is that
>> my collaborators often (despite my best efforts) choose to treat the
>> AVI output as raw data and do other analyses on it. However, the
>> posts have given me some ammo when I say these movies can run on a
>> Mac.
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>> Now I have a general follow up question: if the software which
>> GENERATES the AVIs works fine on PC and Linux and doesn't work on the
>> Mac, is there a way for the Virtual Machine to return the specific
>> errors that are being encountered? In other words, if I am not
>> running a full version of IDL on the Mac, is there some way to debug
>> this program remotely? For the life of me, I cannot figure out why my
>> distributed app is not working in this one specific way (AVI
>> generation) on one specific platform.
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>> thanks,
>> Dan
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> Well, there's simply no way that Ronn's avi writer will work on a
> Mac. The dll relies on Windows to run the codec to encode the avi.
> Someone might be able to write a dll (is that what it's called -
> perhaps shared library) for Linux and/or Mac if there is an API for
> those systems.
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> Is that what you're asking?
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Yes. I was afraid that would be the response. /dan
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