annoamp

Annoamp 0.1 - Card House

Submitted by Scott Shawcroft on Fri, 05/12/2006 - 19:25.

This is the first release of Annoamp, 0.1, dubbed the 'Card House'. Check back for distro specific packages. Tarball now, more later. Get it here.

What is annoamp?

Submitted by Scott Shawcroft on Tue, 05/02/2006 - 21:35.

Annoamp is a stand-alone annodex media player using gstreamer and gtk+. It supports both ogg theora and ogg vorbis streams. Its main purpose was to function as a proof of concept program.


It utilizes annodex/cmml streams to allow jump navigation through a media file similar to the function of DVD chapters. In addition to this, it provides a meta information framework displaying images, descriptions and links found in the current clip. It also will remember the last position in a file allowing a resume-like function. This is ideal for listening to long files in shorter sittings.

Installation

Submitted by Scott Shawcroft on Tue, 05/02/2006 - 21:32.

Annoamp is currently, only available through subversion. We are waiting for the annodex patches to be accepted into the main tree of gstreamer. That said, feel free to pull the latest subversion and give it a whirl. It can be found at http://svn.annodex.net/annoamp/trunk/.


The actual installation of Annoamp is quite simple. Since it is written in Python, nothing needs to be compiled. Simply run annoamp.py and it should work. However, the dependencies are trickier.

Dependencies

Submitted by Scott Shawcroft on Tue, 05/02/2006 - 21:27.
  • python-2.4
  • >=libglade-2.4
  • >=pygtk-2.8
  • >=gstreamer-10.0.2
  • >=gst-plugins-base-10.0.2 - patched
  • >=gst-plugins-good-10.0.1 - patched
  • >=gst-python-10.0.2

Note: As of 1/22/06 patches apply to latest release of the corresponding gstreamer package.

Demonstrations

Submitted by Scott Shawcroft on Tue, 05/02/2006 - 21:23.

Screenshots of Annoamp:

 

Note: These are somewhat old. Newer screens will be posted soon. The version in the video is newer too.

Videos of Annoamp:


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Who created annoamp?

Submitted by Scott Shawcroft on Tue, 05/02/2006 - 21:14.

Annoamp was written by Scott Shawcroft and Jason Kivlighn. Both attend the University of Washington in Seattle.


Jason Kivlighn wrote Fung Calc and is an active Krecipes developer.

Scott Shawcroft has developed Denu and is currently working on a documentary of Internet Culture to be filmed this summer.

Contact:

Both developers are occasionally on irc.freenode.net/#annodex. Scott is tannewt and Jason is jakin.