On Nov 7, 2007 9:57 PM, Michael Hasenstein
jdd wrote:
Michael Hasenstein wrote:
jdd wrote:
I may be interested, depending on the content. I'm not at all a flash programmer, but can help in translating to french if applicable.
Well, the content is up to you...
if act only as a translator, i wont :-)
True enough... have a look at the current content (see the script links) and at the website. It's not much but I guess that can also be a plus, imagine you want to start and there are thousands of hours of text to translate ;-) Suggestion: go ahead and get yourself letexa.fr and start translating! How about it? I'd of course give you access to the current webserver. The disadvantage of my shared hosting: I cannot host anything but .com, .net, .org, .us. It's no use setting up an IP to my current webserver, because I cannot change its Apache configuration so I cannot add another name-based virtual host. That means the only way to host another domain for me is an HTML redirect, i.e. somewhere a webserver must exist that answers to letexa.other-toplevel-domain and serves the browser an HTML file with a redirect to http://letexa.com/whatever/
1) may be we should move to an other mailing list?
Sure: http://letexa.com/contributors.php
2) we must make clear what is the source material support (video, drawings, impress, source code...) making video is very long..
Basically anything as far as I'm concerned, since I can read all "standard" formats and everything from Adobe (.ai, .fla, .indd, etc.). So I'd need the script, everything the script references (pictures, sounds, texts, animations, videos) and an audio file with the spoken script. I put together the .swf, convert the audio file into an mp3 inside a .flv. Adobes video file format .flv can also serve as an audio-only container - with this crucial benefit to pure MP3: .flv's can have meta information like CUE POINTS.
One thing that must be in the script is cue point information. At what time should what happen (display this picture, start that animation, hide that previously shown text, etc.)? I add those cue points to the flv, and THAT is what makes the presentation "tick". All info about when an action should start is embedded with the audio. So to get different timing, for example because someone provides a different voiceover for the same content, I don't have to change the .swf. I just recode the audio file with different cue point info!
Okay, details... one of those which I have to describe.
I still have lots of things to describe and lay open before you...
Michael
-- Email: mh@hasenstein.com Home: http://hasenstein.com/ Project: http://letexa.com/ Company: http://mbe-nuernberg.de/ Future company: http://euramer.com/
Моё терпение подходит концу!
--
Uhm, not directly related, but I'm just throwing up ideas here. The mention of Flash reminds me of Moonlight (http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlight). If its something on open source, I thought it'd be more appropriate if we can present it with something that is open source as well. Of course this is assuming that Moonlight is ready. Let me state that I hardly know anything about it except from what I hear from the news and podcasts. Anyone has any updates/more info regarding it?