[ale] ALE CENTRAL MTG for Thursday, April 16, 2009

[Jim Kinney]

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 12:43 PM, arxion <arxaaron at gmail.com> wrote:

> All that's really needed to effectively deliver most presentation
> material is a sequence of static screen shots occasionally changing
> in sync to an audio track, just like the old "film strips" we used
> to get in school (the grey beards should know what I'm talking
> about [BEEP], but maybe not the younger folks. [BEEP]).  Delivering
> something like this would be an extremely low bandwidth issue,
> and having static screens or slides instead of a video stream would
> allow for the data to be delivered in their full, fully readable
> resolution.
>
> If anybody knows of anything that works like this AND can deliver
> the end result "Film Strip" through a web browser or other fully
> cross platform software mechanism, then please share! (Or maybe
> this isn't such a great approach, so nobody else has pursued it?
> maybe it's too simple and obvious?)
>
> I've looked extensively for a solution here and haven't had much
> success. Everything seems focussed on LIVE and PIXEO delivery,
> with all the associated wasted bandwidth and miserable quality.
> I've pretty much resigned that I'm going to have to create this
> myself if I want it to happen, but it may be a blue moon before
> I find time. Also, my programming skills and interests would
> lead me to do this in Python / WxPython as a cross platform
> solution, but it would probably be a lot more useful and system
> compatible if the delivery could be browser based.
>
> feedback welcome...
>

If the slide show is in OOo, it supports a mp3 audio track with slide
transitions to make an automatic presentation. Maybe we just need a
way to set slide transitions to "music" with hard timings based from
the video and publish the output as an odp file.

*NOTE* I have not actually done all of this but it is supposed to work.

yeah. _supposed_ to work. right. i know. pigs fly. microsoft goes gplv3.

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James P. Kinney III