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Posted: **Wed 28 Nov 2012, 18:25**

Imagination 3.0 Slideshow Presentation

Older version 2.1 for Lucid Puppy

imagination-3.0b.pet (modified version if name doesn't show in menu)

Imagination is still being developed

Imagination at present features 69 transition effects, random
function to automatically set a random transition on all the selected slides,
cut/copy/paste ability on the slides, Ken Burns ability, text on the slides
with some text animations, ability to add an empty slide with a gradient
editor and export of the slideshow as OGV Theora/Vorbis, widescreen FLV
video and 3GP for mobile phones.

Status

The latest stable release of Imagination is 3.0 released on 06/03/11 with
HD export! If you're upgrading from pre-2.0 version of Imagination, make
sure you uninstall old version before attempting to install this one.

I wasn't successful in compiling it so I cheated and downloaded the
launchpad.com debian files and made a pet package.

Requirements: ffmeg and sox --> ffmeg is inside most puppies
so that means that only sox needs to be installed(but it needs to be a
'full' version of sox with libsox). I've included a version I found
on the forum that works for me.

Because this pet package is derived from the debian packages
it will only work on special versions of Puppy. I couldn't get it to
work with Lucid Puppy for instance.

I've checked it out with these versions -->

1) Barry Kauler's Precise Puppy
2) Slacko
3) Pemasu's Wheezy
4) Pemasu's version of Precise works, however there is a
problem with the application name not showing in the start menu so
launching with the terminal is necessary.

I've included an example of a presentation video so that you
can see what is possible with no training. It's simply
one image with text and a soundtrack added.

The format is VOB which is similar to mpeg and can be easily burnt
to a DVD.

You can use Shinobar's ffconvert to convert to another format.

Some Tips: use menu items

Slideshow > Import pictures
Slideshow > Import music
Export

You can also drag an image to bottom of application window.
Each image can have transistions associated with it.

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Posted: **Thu 06 Dec 2012, 08:51**

Hi, don570.

Runs in (my private version of) LazY Puppy. Could you publish a file to load into Imagination (Your video example?) to test if it works also?

Edit:

Might not run in the web versions of LazY Puppy, because my private version has a lot of stuff removed that is still in the web versions. If so, post information of messages when trying to run from console. If possible, I will help to get this running in the web versions.

I have made a SFS from the files. Copied all files into a directory and used the LazY PaDS for this.

First try did fail, because of the sox-14.2.0-with-deps.pet. This .pet has been renamed after its creation. Doing such things results in two different directories at extracting the .pet.

One directory is named as the original file and contains the original data. Second directory is named like the renamed .pet, which then contains only directory var.

Please, all .pet creators: DO NOT RENAME a .pet after its creation to keep the LazY PaDS able to build a single SFS from a directory containing .pet and .deb files.

Thanks

RSH

Posted: **Thu 06 Dec 2012, 09:30**

OK.

Works also in LazY Puppy. Here is an example for imagination, created in LazY Puppy. I have successfully exported this from Imagination.

RSH

EDIT:

Attachment removed, because ti doesn't include the data I've used ---> seems to be just a text file containing descriptions like HTML/XML or .conf files.

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#Imagination 2.0 Slideshow Project - http://imagination.sf.net

[slideshow settings]
video format=576
background color=0;0;0;
distort images=true
number of slides=4

[slide 1]
filename=/root/puppy-reference/backgrounds/default.jpg
angle=0
duration=2
transition_id=50
speed=4
no_points=0
anim id=0
anim duration=1
text pos=4
placing=0
font=Sans 12
font color=0;0;0;1;
font bgcolor=1;1;1;1;

[slide 2]
gradient=0
start_color=0;0;0;
stop_color=1;1;1;
start_point=0;0;
stop_point=1;1;
duration=1
transition_id=34
speed=4
no_points=0
anim id=0
anim duration=1
text pos=4
placing=0
font=Sans 12
font color=0;0;0;1;
font bgcolor=1;1;1;1;

[slide 3]
filename=/mnt/sdd1/Dateien/Bilder/drums.jpg
angle=0
duration=2
transition_id=22
speed=4
no_points=0
text=The End
anim id=0
anim duration=1
text pos=4
placing=0
font=Sans 12
font color=0;0;0;1;
font bgcolor=1;1;1;1;

[slide 4]
gradient=0
start_color=0;0;0;
stop_color=1;1;1;
start_point=0;0;
stop_point=1;1;
duration=2
transition_id=36
speed=4
no_points=0
anim id=2
anim duration=1
text pos=4
placing=0
font=Sans 12
font color=0;0;0;1;
font bgcolor=1;1;1;1;

Sorry. Did just realized now, a file sized 1kb could not include several images.

Posted: **Fri 07 Dec 2012, 01:42**

I never checked to see if it had been renamed.
It was posted a couple of years ago by somebody
and nobody complained...
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=437379

There is a special Lucid version of Sox in the official repository.

Maybe it works. I didn't check....

If you try imagination on an old version of Lucid puppy ,
there will be glibc errors.

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Posted: **Fri 14 Dec 2012, 01:42**

I was able to get imagination 3.0 to work
in Carolina. Follow the instructions carefully.

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 102#671102

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Posted: **Thu 21 Mar 2013, 17:38**

Imagination works well within Slacko 5.5 but using the terminal.
No further investigation, just a look : it opens.

Wary's users are complaining...
Old computer >>>> old stuff
imagination 1.5 works very well, perhaps better than newest versions

Posted: **Thu 21 Mar 2013, 23:52**

I need to look at the desktop file that Imagination uses.
When I have time I'll do that.

Posted: **Sat 23 Mar 2013, 16:46**

I worked on the desktop file. I couldn't find any errors.
There must be a bug in BarryK's installer program.

I modified the pet package in version imagination-3.0b.pet

It has two desktop files which seems to fool the installer program
so that it will show Imagination in start menu at least in Precise.

I'll test it in the newest Slacko.

I tested it in Wheezy and it works.
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Posted: **Wed 27 Mar 2013, 00:12**

The modified version b worked well in Slacko 5.5.

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Posted: **Tue 09 Apr 2013, 14:56**

Any interest in something like this but in an extremely simplified version - as in, 1 image + 1 sound track + 1 watermark/overlay that outputs to a .mp4 video for upload to youtube?
here is an example.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NimKqL9fJVo

Posted: **Tue 09 Apr 2013, 19:59**

Yes, I would be interested in such version, but I can not watch the video. It won't load even after a long time.

Posted: **Mon 19 Aug 2013, 21:27**

stu91 wrote:Any interest in something like this but in an extremely simplified version - as in, 1 image + 1 sound track + 1 watermark/overlay that outputs to a .mp4 video for upload to youtube?
here is an example.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NimKqL9fJVo

Very interested!

Posted: **Mon 19 Aug 2013, 21:37**

stu91 wrote:1 image + 1 sound track + 1 watermark/overlay

Could you have two mono audio files, one for music and
the other for the voice over? I think there's code that will combine
two mono tracks into a stereo track.

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Posted: **Fri 01 Aug 2014, 08:16**

Imagination 1.5 Toutou Linux 4.3.1 : fine too. An audio file can be added, permitting comments. Unhappily my poor toutou does not have the speech. No audio sound card found. Imagination is not the cause of that

Version 3
imagination: symbol lookup error: imagination: undefined symbol: g_malloc0_n

Imagination 3.0b Slacko 5.3.3 XFCE (Jejy69) :
libsamplerate.so.0 missing. I come back

stop, something always is missing on this (nice) distro.

Imagination 2.1 absolutely perfect with Lucid 5.2.8. Diaporama exported VOB (DVD) to Youtube for a satisfying résult (in my opinion). In the french Wary Wolx 2014, i get segmentation Fault

Posted: **Tue 19 Aug 2014, 04:49**

all that works, we are learning how to use it. It' a new job... We'll need some help, sure. Artist is not easier than Geek !
libavformat.so.51 libavcodec.so.51 libavutil.so.49 : links to do

imagination-3.0b.pet: 1187 K >>> segmentation fault

Posted: **Mon 10 Aug 2015, 06:06**

Imagination 3.0b Slacko 5.3.3 XFCE (Jejy69) : parfait, perfect, perfecto
all that works, we are learning how to use it, and do nice presentations;

Posted: **Thu 17 Mar 2016, 03:49**

People without imagination let us abandoned here.
"all that works, we are learning how to use it. It' a new job... We'll need some help, sure. Artist is not easier than Geek !
libavformat.so.51 libavcodec.so.51 libavutil.so.49 : links to do
imagination-3.0b.pet: 1187 K >>> segmentation fault"

Posted: **Wed 04 Jan 2017, 16:13**

Slideshow Img must be exported as VOB to be played by Gnome Mplayer.
Format 4/3 or 16/9.
Used With Antix topic Antix francophone

Posted: **Thu 05 Jan 2017, 01:16**

Hi All,

Thanks, pelo, for reminding me of this app. I decided to see if it could be constructed for use under Xenialpup64. Doing so was easy:

I just set Puppy Package Manager: options - install to tmps, download even if file present and do not delete. Changed Auto-Install to Download All (package and dependencies). PPM found only 2 relevent files: imagination_3.0 and imagination-common-3.0. PPM found 5 dependencies. I moved everything into a folder named imagination-xen64-3.0. Now comes the hard part.

Edit Jan 7, 2017: The booting into 32-bit OS appears no longer to be necessary. My speculation below about the problem with PaDS lead me to seek a solution. See here: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 515#938515

My experience is that PaDS, http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=81511 doesn't function properly in 64-bit Puppies.* So I booted into Tahrpup (32-bit), Right-clicked the imagination-xen64-3.0 folder, selected Combined to SFS. About 30 second later an SFS appeared @ /root. I moved this to /mnt/home and booted back into Xenialpup64.

Loaded the app, but quit so I could examine it with ldd for missing files: cd/ usr/bin; then ldd imagination. No missing files. No warnings. Typing imagination in terminal started it right-up.

I haven't tried to, but I would think building the imagination app in Tahrpup, Tahrpup64 and xenialpup should be just as easy. Edit: It was.

mikesLr

* I think the problem isn't with PaDS itself. It consists primarily of Lazy Puppy's fine craftsmanship in writing bash-scripts, as does another application PaDS utilizes called unrpm. Unrpm includes a binary named dpkg-deb2 which was compiled back in 2008, I suspect it may be the stumbling block. When PaDS is run under 64-bit Puppies an SFS is created, but it contains no files.

(old)Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

Imagination 3.0 Slideshow Presentation

Imagination 3.0 Slideshow Presentation

imagination Slacko 5.5 Ok via terminal

Imagination (versions)

all that works, we are learning how to use it

Imagination 3.0b Slacko 5.3.3 XFCE (Jejy69) :

People without imagination let us abandoned here.

Slideshow Img must be exported as VOB

Imagination Constructed in Xenialpup64 w/o a hitch