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disk access is indeed necessary.

I've been experimenting with SDL and rubysdl yesterday and managed to stream video, althought it was not very fluently (I think smpeg is used in the precompiled Windows rubysdl package). Next, I found ffmpeg, which also works in combination with SDL, which seems more mature and performant than smpeg (correct me if I'm wrong), but only had the time to try things in C++. Hopefully I can find a ready-made ruby interface for SDL/ffmpeg (all suggestions are welcome ofcourse). The good thing is that I could compile both SDL and ffmpeg using MinGW on a M$-machine.

Greetings,
Geert.


-----Original Message-----
From: Ilmari Heikkinen [mailto:ilmari.heikkinen / gmail.com]
Sent: Mon 6/26/2006 4:05 PM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: creating graphical application with video
 
On 6/26/06, Geert Fannes <geert.fannes / ikanconsulting.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have to teach my sister how to create an application that can show pictures
> and small video files on a windows-based system and get some user input in
> return. Being able to work fullscreen is optional, but would be nice.
>
> In short, I'm looking for an easy to use library set that comes with video
> capabilities enabled and that can handle user interaction as clear as
> possible.
>
> All suggestions (and examples) are welcome.

SDL can show images and videos but is not really a gui toolkit.
http://www.kmc.gr.jp/~ohai/rubysdl.en.html

ruby-gnome2 + gstreamer might work.
http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?Simple+Audio+Player

IMHO the easiest way to show pictures and videos would be
HTML plus JavaScript for interactivity.

But it's harder to read and write to disk that way.


HTH,
Ilmari



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