From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: From: "Steve Simon" Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 10:52:34 +0100 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Multimedia on Plan 9 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 84dd1e9a-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > It seems like every multimedia component should be a file > server with some standart interface Beware of pushing the file mataphor too far, jpg(1) and tojpg(1) work pretty well, as pipelined processes though animated gifs don't fit so well. This said animated gifs are really short movies so gif -c could output a movie clip file (format yet to be defined) rather than a single image file, this would fit the model much better... If anyone is interested I ranted on the idea of a toolkit approach to movies here /n/sources/contrib/steve/Blog -Steve