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Introduction:
aKtion! is a video player based on xanim. It (xanim) supports many different
file formats:
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FLI animations.
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FLC animations.
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IFF animations.
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GIF87a and GIF89a files.
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GIF89a animation extension support.
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DL animations. Formats 1, 2 and most of 3.
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Amiga MovieSetter animations(For those Eric Schwartz fans).
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Utah Raster Toolkit RLE images and anims.
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AVI animations.
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Quicktime Animations.
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SGI Movie Format Files.
NOTE: You'll need to have xanim
2.70.7.0 properly installed in your machine to run aKtion!. If you
don't have xanim click here.
How to install:
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Uncompress the aktion.tgz file in the usual way (try KZip ;-)
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Go into the /aktion directory.
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Type "./configure"
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Then "make"
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And finally "make install"
That's all. Now, if the compilation process was fine, you'll see the aKtion!
icon in the Multimedia menu.
Using the player:
Here is a little screenshot:
To start aKtion!, go into the "Multimedia" menu, and choose the "aKtion!"
entry. Ypu can also call it from the commnad line like:
aktion [filename] <enter>
Available keys:
ESC : leave the player
SPACE : play/pause
ENTER : open file
F1 : help
, (comma) : backward
. (dor) : forward
2 : volume down
3 : volume up
Frequently Asked Questions:
What means that "Unsupported
video codec" error message?
This means that the player can't recognize the video format, or, more
probably, that you don't have a recent xanim version or a "full featured"
version of xanim. In some Linux (and probably others O.S.) distributions
(as RedHat), xanim doesn't comes with all the video codecs in it due to
some legal issues. How to fix this?. Read the next question.
How do I get
the "full featured" version of xanim?
Go to the xanim
homepage and follow the instructions on how to get the "cinepak", "indeo"
and "creative" video codecs. Probably you'll need to recompile xanim.
Copyright:
aKtion! is distributed under GPL (see the LICENSE file included in the
distribution)
XAnim Copyright (C) 1990-1997 by Mark Podlipec.
All rights reserved.
This software may be freely copied, modified and redistributed
without
fee for non-commerical purposes provided that this copyright
notice is
preserved intact on all copies and modified copies.
There is no warranty or other guarantee of fitness of
this software.
It is provided solely "as is". The author(s) disclaim(s)
all
responsibility and liability with respect to this software's
usage
or its effect upon hardware or computer systems.
KXAnim
Introduction:
The kxanim widget is a xanim wrapper to allow video playing on your apps.
Where is it?
You'll find the two files for the KXAnim widget into the /aktion/src directory
in the distribution (no lib yet!). The files are:
The docs are in /aktion/src/doc (or just click the help button in
the aKtion! player). Or just click here.
Using the widget:
KXAnim works like any other QT/KDE widget. In order to use it, you need
to include two files in your project:
You must generate the kxanim.moc file using the MOC compiler
(see the Qt documentation for more info).
Now you will need to declare the widget like:
KXAnim *myVideoWidget;
myVideoWidget = new KXAnim( this, "the name");
myVideoWidget->move(x,y);
Then you just need to connect some signals to the widget slots. You
can also call those slots manually like:
myVideoWidget->play();
But before this don't forget to set the file to play:
myVideoWidget->setFile("videoFileName.avi");
Take a look at the full class documentation.
KXAnim class documentation:
Class documentation.
Guillermo P. Marotte
Santa Fe - Argentina
g-marotte@usa.net