[IAEP] Best video introduction to sugar?

[Eben Eliason]

On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
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> Am 07.10.2008 um 19:51 schrieb Eben Eliason:
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>> I forgot to mention that the demo actually requires independent
>> installation of the video files (so that we could update the videos
>> independent of the player image).  These movies are available online,
>> but are zipped so they can't be watched in the browser.  The links are
>> below.  All are welcome to convert these into .ogg or compress them
>> for web viewing as well.  They are a cleaner source than the small and
>> potentially out-of-sync flash demo version.  Someone might also setup
>> a page which embeds these videos and auto-plays them, so that the
>> dynamic rendering which causes lag in the flash demo doesn't pose a
>> problem. (Loading still might. Perhaps a JS trigger could start them
>> in sync on a button press, or something.)
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>> http://interdimensionmedia.com/scratch/MoMA/XO-0.mov.zip
>> http://interdimensionmedia.com/scratch/MoMA/XO-1.mov.zip
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>> They are approx. 50MB each, zipped.
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> So the XOs actually just play these quicktime videos at MoMA?

Yeah.  We couldn't depend on the XOs to run the dynamic flash videos
in sync (even my computer has a tough time with this, since some
effects (in particular: transitions) tend to slow things down).

- Eben

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