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Re: Re: Re: Re: Initializing... still
Ah, I didn't realize this is on Linux. Currently there is only one media framework available in ELAN on Linux, JMF. Adding a bridge to VLC is on the wish list.
The ELAN distribution contains a JMF version extended with Fobs4JMF. JMF itself (without extensions) supports at least mpeg-1.
If media playback in ELAN on Linux doesn't work, often the cause is that native (non Java) libraries cannot be found. JMF needs the environment variable "LD_LIBRARY_PATH" to bet set; the installer of ELAN tries to do so.
To check if this is indeed the case, try to play a file in ELAN until it hangs, quit ELAN and look in the log file. This file is in <user_home>/.elan_data/elan0.log (or elan1.log etc., look at the timestamp). There might be error messages at the end of the file.
-Han
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Initializing... still
Thanks Han,<br> there seem to be two problems - both mine. First, being new to the whole video thing, my data has been saved in a video format/ audio format / container combination that is not supported by VLC and I need to convert that some how to mpeg 1<br><br>Second, although i can run the JMF test programs (jmstudio in particular) there seems to be something funny about how this machine is set up - the diagnotsics applet wouldn't find the CLASSPATH nor the LD_LIBRARY_PATH until I copied the jars into the java ext directory and the "*.so" files into /usr/lib This is a JMF problem of course.<br><br>With things set up this way, I can load a mpg test file and get Elan to produce a proper warning message that something is missing. Again, an error code that could be googled for would be more helpful that saying that something (that doesn't make sense to me) is missing.<br><br>I will struggle on...<br><br>P<br><br><br>
Release of ELAN 4.3.0
