Re: AVIs for the Mac [message #63902 is a reply to message #63734] |
Fri, 21 November 2008 07:15  |
Vince Hradil
Messages: 574 Registered: December 1999
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On Nov 21, 9:11 am, Dan Larson <dlar...@aecom.yu.edu> wrote:
> 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.
>
> thanks,
> Dan
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.
Is that what you're asking?
Vince
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