Macromedia is the company that produces the software used to the CDs - the package used is probably Director. The latest version of Director uses the Shockwave player to play back the completed files, although the company doesn't supply a Linux version as far as I know. John ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mr J. Murdoch Email : j.murdoch@rgc.aberdeen.sch.uk Network Manager Tel. : +44 1224 646346 (switchboard) Robert Gordon's College Aberdeen AB10 1FE Fax : +44 1224 630301 ----------------------------------------------------------------------

-----Original Message----- From: kevin.taylor@powerconv.alstom.com [SMTP:kevin.taylor@powerconv.alstom.com] Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 9:39 AM To: suse-linux-uk-schools@suse.com Subject: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Mutilmedia (was: PostgreSQL and Linux / Windows)

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The aim should be any application for any platform, which is becoming the goal for the corporate world.

Many CD Rom titles that my kids use, support Windows 3.1, 95, NT and Macs. They tend to use Macromedia - so I would guess that there would not be a large investment in their time to provide the "viewing software" for Linux too - after all the same data is already used for various flavours of Windows and Macs - but I have asked various people (DK, Tivola, etc) about Linux support and always draw a blank.

Again, this sort of thing could do with a bit more muscle to show that this could be a useful way for the publishers to go - could Becta do this too ?

I do not know anything about how 'Macromedia' works, but presumably if they started to support Linux, then Linux versions of the popular CDs would follow.

Kevin.