[BitPim-devel] New "bmp2avi" package

[d***@netzero.com]

Roger, I have a new C++ "bmp2avi" package that produces a helper to convert between avi and bmp files. Do you want me to commit this package into BitPim, and if so where ('native' subdir comes to mind)? I also need help to generate a Mac version of this helper (I already generated a Windows & Linux ones).

Thanks,

-Joe Pham


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[Roger Binns]

Post by d***@netzero.com
Roger, I have a new C++ "bmp2avi" package that produces a helper
to convert between avi and bmp files.

Where is the home page and license for it? The only package I could
find was payware. Also why bmp2avi? What about avi2bmp? What happens
to the sound?

Also have you looked at Quicktime for Linux? It has various libraries
for ripping out the streams in Quicktime:

http://heroinewarrior.com/quicktime.php3

Roger

[d***@netzero.com]

Post by Roger Binns
Where is the home page and license for it? The only package I could
find was payware. Also why bmp2avi? What about avi2bmp? What >happens to the sound?

There's no home page and the license is BitPim since I wrote it for BitPim. bmp2avi also performs "avi2bmp" conversion via command line switches. Sound can be easily built into the avi file by adding a PCM/WAV audio stream; however, I have not yet located a codec to convert the Qualcomm stuff to WAV or any other format for that matter. So right now, just video, no audio. I tested it on Windows & Linux, and I'm pretty sure it'd also work on the Mac (I tested it on an HP box which is a big endian machine).

Post by Roger Binns
Also have you looked at Quicktime for Linux?

Yes, it sounds like a very good and versatile tool, but seems overkilled for what I need. It doesn't even mention anything 'bout Windows & Mac platform. If we could use that for other formats in the future, we certainly could use it for this application. I'll look more into it and let you know.

-Joe Pham



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[Roger Binns]

Post by d***@netzero.com
it for BitPim.

Oh, that makes more sense :-)

Is there an advantage to it being an external helper binary vs
a module. I'd be happy to write the code to interface it to the
Python C API.

I'd suggest a native/av directory as there will probably be more
convertors and slicers along these lines.

Roger

[Jim Smith]

Perhaps this has never worked. I read my phone's phonebook into the CVS
version of BitPim and it didn't read my default number. In other words,
instead of a contact's default number being Cell as it is in the phone,
BitPim set it to Home. I rearranged the numbers in BitPim and sent them back
to the phone, and they were written correctly. Importing again from Outlook
to BitPim properly did not change the calling order.

Thanks,
Jim

[d***@netzero.com]

Post by Roger Binns
Is there an advantage to it being an external helper binary vs
a module. I'd be happy to write the code to interface it to the
Python C API.

And I thought you'd never ask :-). I'll go ahead and check it in and you can wave your Python wand over it.

Post by Roger Binns
I'd suggest a native/av

I'll go ahead and put it under native/av/bmp2avi and you can move the relevant stuff to the right place.

-Joe Pham



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[Roger Binns]

Post by d***@netzero.com

Post by Roger Binns
I'd suggest a native/av

I'll go ahead and put it under native/av/bmp2avi

I'd rather it isn't in a subdirectory. We only need to have
subdirectories once there are 30 or 40 files in there.

Roger