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Re: Linux with JMF - a Fobs free Elan?

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Re: Linux with JMF - a Fobs free Elan?

Posted by hasloe at 2010-03-15 12:47

Letting the installer detect JMF on the system will be difficult, I guess. I don't believe (our version of) the software we use to create the installer supports this.
But it should be possible to let ELAN use an installed JMF by removing the JMF libraries etc. from the jre that comes with ELAN (in case you installed an ELAN version with JRE) and adopting the lax file (or the .sh script in the /bin directory) to use the pre-installed JMF.

I'll see if I can lay my hands on an Ubuntu 9.10, that would make it easier to give some advise.

-Han

Re: Re: Linux with JMF - a Fobs free Elan?

Posted by micha at 2010-03-16 15:02

Perhaps the following will help.

My setup: Ubuntu 9.10, existing Java v1.6 install, ELAN install (without the JRE). This setup does not display a video image in ELAN.

In elan0.log:
Fobs4JMF - Native shared library NOT found
java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: /home/ruwerk/ELAN 3.8.1/jmf__Vlin2.1.1fcs/libfobs4jmf.so: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Solution that worked for me:
I downloaded http://sourceforge.net/projects/fobs/files/fobs4jmf%20binaries/Fobs4JMF-0.4.1/fobs4jmf-0.4.1-ubuntu-edgy.tar.gz/download and copied two files in this tar.gz, fobs4jmf.jar and libfobs4jmf.so, to the directory <user_home_dir>/ELAN 3.8.1/jmf__Vlin2.1.1fcs/

Now ELAN does display the video (after a restart of ELAN of course).

Re: Re: Linux with JMF - a Fobs free Elan?

Posted by pwallis at 2010-03-23 11:52

I have been fiddling about without success.  I am using the no jre version and fiddling about with the Elan_Linux_3_8_1.sh in the bin directory. removing the JMF stuff provided by Elan doesn't change anything so I guess the problem is in the java.  The error I am getting is the same "initializing ..." By the way, Detecting an installed JMF in the java is of course easy: just try and use it and catch the exception.  It is possible I am doing something silly with formats.  The file is generated from a webcam using JMF and is a mov file with H263 video and IMA4 sound...