From: John Joyce <dangerwillrobinsondanger@...>
Date: 2007-07-27T10:16:02+09:00
Subject: Re: how to play .avi and view jpg?


On Jul 26, 2007, at 6:45 AM, arun wrote:

> I'm trying to write some client software that can play .avi videos,
> either in a window or full screen, as well as display photos. What is
> the best way to do this in Ruby? A library that works across platforms
> would be perfect, failing which, either Windows or Linux would do.
>
> Thanks,
> Arun
>
>
You want cross platform?
You should use VLC player for the .avi files, nothing is more cross  
platform than that. It's a full blown app already with GUI hooks for  
many platforms. Open source, so you can use it and abuse it.
Displaying photos? It can probably do that too.