Posted by
Jeffrey B. Woodward on
Nov 26, 2008; 7:01pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/AVI-Virtual-Stack-1GB-boundery-tp3693422p3693449.html
Bill,
Sorry for the lack of "non-developer" instructions. Try the following:
1) Unzip the QTVirtualStack.zip file to some temporary location (or copy
out just the single file that is needed: QTVirtualStack_.jar)
2) Copy/Move QTVirtualStack_.jar to {ImageJ_Root}/plugins/jars.
3) Start Up ImageJ...
4) There should be a new option under File->Import called "QT Virtual
Stack..." -- select it...
5) A file explorer should have opened...navigator to your movie file and
open it.
In short, the source code and build script is there; however, I did
include the "binary" version as well for what should be a drop-in and go
experience.
Developer instructions for rebuilding it from source are pretty
straightforward: "ant jar" should do the trick.
If things go wrong, it is likely because the Quicktime for Java bindings
aren't installed on your system...see my notes in the original post for
that.
Sorry that this isn't bundled up as a "real" ImageJ plugin. If someone
wants to take on that challenge, by all means...I am not one of those
developers that gets offended by other developers cleaning-up/enhancing
my code where I was too lazy to do so myself ;-) If there is demand for
it being packaged as an ImageJ plugin, and nobody else will take that
on, then I could probably be talked out of my laziness...
-Woody
Bill Mohler wrote:
> Woody-
>
> Thanks for sharing this.
> For us non-developers, how would we install this as an executable
> plugin? Do we need to do a build to create the .class file that we
> can run? Is this in a README in the package?
>
> Thanks,
> Bill
>
>> Wayne Rasband wrote:
>>> On Nov 26, 2008, at 10:50 AM, Jeffrey B. Woodward wrote:
>>>
>>>> Not sure if it will help, but I wrote a Virtual Quicktime Stack
>>>> plugin for ImageJ that I should be able to share. In theory, if you
>>>> can view the AVI in question with Quicktime, then the plugin should
>>>> also work within ImageJ; however, I have not tested the plugin with
>>>> AVI files (I wrote it in order to deal with large mpeg files). I
>>>> found the documentation for the Java Quicktime bindings to be a bit
>>>> frustrating, but I was eventually able to work through those
>>>> issues. The most important note was on getting the Quicktime Java
>>>> bindings installed in the first place....the key to that was making
>>>> sure that the Java JDK is installed *prior* to installing Quicktime
>>>> (uninstall and reinstall Quicktime if necessary...the newer
>>>> versions of the Quicktime installer don't prompt to install the
>>>> Java bindings...it just seems to do it automatically if it can find
>>>> a JDK).
>>>>
>>>> In summary, contact me if you want to give a Virtual Quicktime
>>>> Stack plugin a shot.
>>>
>>> Hi Woody,
>>>
>>> I would like to check out your Virtual Quicktime Stack plugin. I
>>> sounds like it could very useful. I can test it with AVI files.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> -wayne
>>>
>>
>> If I remember correctly, the maillist doesn't allow attachments. I have
>> extracted the QTVirtualStack components from my project (and changed the
>> name of the java package), and I put together a quick ant build script.
>> I will host it at the following URL "for a while":
>>
http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~jnw/QTVirtualStack.zip>>
>> Wayne, if you'd like to clean it up and incorporate it into an official
>> build of ImageJ that would be cool; otherwise, feedback/comments are
>> equally useful.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -Woody
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