On Oct 30, 2003, at 5:09 pm, Ian Leitch wrote:
... An extension to Nautilus's video playback abilities that allows videos, live streams(conferences, web cam, security video) etc, to be shrunk to icon size (or a user defined size) and given a small caption just like an icon's title, the video should also shed its window and sound muted.
I was watching a video on my Mac last night, and was noticably impressed with the way Expose handled it.
It seemed a little juddery scaling between full size & preview (whilst scaling several other windows at the same time) but I can't reproduce that now - it's *absolutely* smooth. Videos continue to play as they resize so that all windows fit on the screen, and when animation squashes them minimised [1]. As long as they're being playing in the QuickTime player they also continue to play as a 5mm - 30mm icon in the dock.
The key words are that Mac OS X allows "arbitrary transformations on windows". I'm not sure how useful it is to be able to shrink moving video to icon-size, and I'd agree with anyone that says that the Genie effect in my screenshots is no more than a gimmick, but with the recent release of OS X.2.3 & it's Expose function - you probably have to try it before you appreciate it - but now it's a fantastically useful tool.
I think that anything like this is a hell of a task within the current framework of X, however.
Stroller.
[1] See http://mac.stroller.uk.eu.org/Genie1.jpg http://mac.stroller.uk.eu.org/Genie2.jpg http://mac.stroller.uk.eu.org/Genie4.jpg http://mac.stroller.uk.eu.org/Genie4.jpg
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