These are technical notes for system administrators. If you do not understand the content of this page, than it probably isn't important; Burton Vision can be expected to just work on conventional systems. If it does not, please contact us.
JavaBurton Vision's flagship products are built with Java. This does not need to be installed manually; a private JRE is installed with Burton Vision. This means that a Java Runtime Environment is inside Burton Vision's application directory, is used only by Burton Vision, and will not interact with or be utilized by any other part of your system. It will not affect other software or interefere with Java environments already installed. Windows NotesBurton Vision is supported on Windows 2000 and newer. On this platform, a Java Runtime Environment is included with the program as noted above. Sun Microsystem's Java environment for Windows utilizes hardware acceleration for graphics, so fullscreen video playback should be smooth on Pentium III or newer. Mac OS XBurton Vision is developed on and supports on 32-bit and 64-bit Intel Macs. On OS X 10.4, you must run the system update to install Java 5 or 6; Java 1.4 is not supported. Mac OS X PowerPCBurton Vision is supported on OS X 10.4 and newer on G4 and G5. We are working on an update, due in March 2010, to improve video playback performance on G4 and G5 systems. G3s are not supported; Burton Vision should work, but good performance is not guaranteed. Other PlatformsSupport for other platforms including Linux netbooks may be available by special request. |
BlogBurton Vision Blog - See updates about our development status and what we're working on. AcknowledgementsWe use open source tools to create Burton Vision. The two most important are FFMPEG and Flying Saucer. FFMPEGWe use an LGPL build of FFMPEG as a video decoding library to replace Quicktime Java, which was cancelled. We also use FFMPEG for various video processing work when publishing new stories and glossaries. Flying SaucerFlying Saucer is a rich text renderer (XHTML, specifically) that we use to display stories in Burton Vision. It has dramatically better performance than the HTML rendering facilities included with Java. MinGWMinGW is a port of the GNU C Compiler and toolchain to Windows. We use this for compiling a few parts of Burton Vision that are written in C and C++, as well as the Bourne shell to automate build processes. |