digital media

Classic Servoy
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Just completed a day at your Seminar in Los Angeles at the Solution Group with Bob C. Great opportunity to see how Servoy really works. Really enjoyed it. We found that Servoy is very possibly exactly the database application generator we’ve been looking for.

We discussed Digital media and Quicktime in particular today. Since Servoy does not support directly the Quicktime format, as Filemaker does, we were hoping that it might be inplemented some time in the near future. This would seemingly open up a great deal of compatibility with many new media formats. We work in the Film and Television industry in Hollyood. We use quicktime files frequently to edit and move video from system to system. We are also wishng to display timecode numbers under the moving quicktime video window in our forms. How might we go about displaying timecode and Quicktime Video in Servoy at this time.

Thank you,

Jeff Spalla
editjs@yahoo.com

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Today I was showing Servoy to a client to take their FM database to the next level. This is an entertainment company and they want to work with movies and images in their database and so the immediately asked about Quicktime support. Though they do not need support for timecodes they do need to be able to pull it from a database or a file on the web or an internal file server.

I imagine this could be implemented using the QT for Java http://developer.apple.com/quicktime/qtjava/ but am not too familiar with it.

Another option might be implementing it with a JavaBean or plugin?

Daniel

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Been looking around the Java sites, but nothing yet. I’ll check it out further.

Does Servoy plan to implement something soon?

Thank you

Jeff

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A quicktime bean is on the planning for this year

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Jan Blok:
A quicktime bean is on the planning for this year

This is REALY GREAT 8) …

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Great…Is there anything you can tell me about the QT bean.

  1. Will we be able to display numbers (timecode) in the player without a great deal of extra research.

  2. Will the player be nested in the Forms like a container field :o :o :lol: , or pop up as a separate player.

  3. Will we be able to import and export files in different formats from with Servoy.

  4. Will the quicktime file path be usuable from within Servoy (Such a problem in Filemaker). In other words, will we be able to track the file paths, change them from inside Servoy on a Global basis.

  5. How soon might I be able to test something.

Sorry, it’s a very exciting prospect. Thank you,

Jeff

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  1. I’m not into quicktime yet, is a timecode equivalent with a marker? (sorry did not found any explanation on the web in short search)

  2. nested

  3. the bean will use the quicktime libs from apple, so yes all the ones supprted by quicktime

  4. you want to work with files rather than records(binary data) ?

  5. not sure yet

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A time code as defined at http://desktopvideo.about.com/library/g … mecode.htm

Time code is the clock for video editing.M- In a normal clock you have 00:00:00 for hours, minutes, and seconds. Timecode adds frames to the equation.M- So you have 03:23:11:12 = hour 3, minute 23, 11 seconds, 12 frames.M- Remember that thirty frames equals one second, typically (unless you are shooting at 24 fps).

As for whether you can use it with Quicktime for Java see the JavaDoc at

http://developer.apple.com/documentatio … 31API_QTJ/

There is a section on TimeCodes.

I am not sure what Jeff wants to use it all for but my immediate needs are to be able to play back a movie from the database and from a URL.

Daniel

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We tried some tests with the latest QTime (shipped with ITunes), but that barely usable, the entire JavaVM crashes about each 3 minutes with voilation inside QTime native modules… so for near future no QTime support :(

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Jan Blok:
… so for near future no QTime support :(

That’s realy a shame, because I already had some good plans with this feature… :(

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Bert:

Jan Blok:
… so for near future no QTime support :(

That’s realy a shame, because I already had some good plans with this feature… :(

For me it means I will have to go back to the drawing board and start evaluating database systems again.

Hopefully you can contact Apple or post to the Java Quicktime list and get the problem solved.

Daniel