Re: seeking for help on MNG creation

On Mar 31, 2004, at 10:46 PM, Tim Pritlove wrote:

>
> On 31.03.2004, at 20:40, Alexander Opitz wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Am Mittwoch, 31. März 2004 18:53 schrieb Gerard Juyn:
>>> Accidentaly, your fix would only work if the source-image is less 
>>> than 8
>>> times the size of the destination image, which is true in this case 
>>> but not
>>> always... The temp buffers in question need to be the rowsize of the
>>> source-image.
>>
>> after this crash is fixed, can we have a new libmng version? Cause if 
>> we go
>> back in mozilla tree, I won't have crashers caused by blinkenlights.
>
> It would be good if the next version could also be sensitive to the 
> fact that autogen.sh uses "libtool" by default, which is named 
> "glibtool" on Mac OS X/Darwin. It's an easy fix for a porting system, 
> but maybe this could be included as well.
>

This would be nice.  I maintain the darwinports port, and it would be 
nice to not have to patch autogen.sh :)


>> And good to know that blinkenlights will use MNG :-)
>
> Yes. We want to have all the high-res movies play on the web and the 
> only alternative would be Flash (GIF files would be far too big and 
> unhandy for our Arcade greyscale movies). If Mozilla would regain MNG 
> support we would have at least a cross-platform solution to point to.
>
> The QuickTime Codec project for libmng 
> (http://qtcomponents.sourceforge.net/) is currently deserted as there 
> was not much interest. I am looking for somebody to take up the effort 
> and continue to provide a QT MNG codec with the current libmng 
> sources. This would be a quick fix for all other browsers on Mac OS X 
> and Windows.
>

what needs to be done?  You can email me offlist if you need...

--Larry

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And like the cat I have nine times to die."

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