Top Document: SGI movie Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Previous Document: -14- Is there a way to bring up a movie (using movieplayer) within Showcase using a button click...and having it Next Document: -16- I have the Galileo (or Indy Video/Indigo2 Video) option, but I can't get Capture to use it. When I run it, the See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge How can I make it work? Date: 20 May 1994 00:00:01 EST Check the following: - Is your system running IRIX 4.0.5? The movieplayer in IRIX 4.0.5 does not support QuickTime movies. You will need to upgrade to IRIX 5.2 in order to receive QuickTime support in movieplayer. - Check to see that the movie file was copied over completely by Mosaic. Sometimes Mosaic will fail to transfer the file completely if the network load is very high. - Finally, the following information submitted by Dave Babcock (daveb@merlin.mti.sgi.com) may prove helpful: xmosaic includes the capability to automatically play SGI movie files referenced by a html document. Unfortunately, there is a "bug" which keeps it from actually working. Fortunately, there is an easy fix. Just edit the /usr/local/lib/mosaic/mailcap file and change the following line: video/x-sgi-movie; movieplayer -l 1 %s; compose=moviemaker %s; \ to be: video/x-sgi-movie; movieplayer -f -l 1 %s; compose=moviemaker %s; \ that is just add the -f. For those who care, the problem is: mosaic copies the movie file to a local temp file; spawns movieplayer passing it the name of the temp file; when it sees movieplayer "terminate" mosaic nicely deletes the temp file. But by default movieplayer runs in background mode which mosaic interprets as it being done and deletes the temp file just before the background task trys to open the temp file. The symptom is that you get the error message: Could not open: /usr/tmp/gaaa000-0.mv: No such file or directory could not open movie file and nothing happens. User Contributions:Top Document: SGI movie Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Previous Document: -14- Is there a way to bring up a movie (using movieplayer) within Showcase using a button click...and having it Next Document: -16- I have the Galileo (or Indy Video/Indigo2 Video) option, but I can't get Capture to use it. When I run it, the Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: sgi-faq@viz.tamu.edu (The SGI FAQ group)
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