A Video To Show Off X.Org's Multi-Touch Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: A Video To Show Off X.Org's Multi-Touch Support

Back in June we shared a nifty video that was produced by the French-based ENAC Interactive Computing Lab that showed off some multi-touch capabilities on Linux. At that time and in the video they were using the Linux kernel and then recognizing gestures from input events and then sending specialized commands over D-Bus straight into Compiz...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=NzgyNg

[thefirstm]

HTML5 video, please?

[bulletxt]

Ask Google to move to html5 video/audio tags. Do not blame Michael.

[jospoortvliet]

So this means this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDadhfHzoLY can be done on linux? Cuz all multitouch video's I've seen with Qt and KDE tech are on Win 7 and I'd love to see it on linux ;-)

[Apopas]

Just one word...
IMPRESSIVE!

[thefirstm]

Ask Google to move to html5 video/audio tags. Do not blame Michael.

But he doesn't have to use YouTube, does he? He could just upload a video file to his own server and add it to the page with the <video> tag.

[bugmenot]

especially it annoys me if he uploads his own videos to youtube -.-

In this case it is not *his* video, but youtube is crap. anyway...

[Apopas]

But he doesn't have to use YouTube, does he? He could just upload a video file to his own server and add it to the page with the <video> tag.

Too much bandwith.

[Louise]

HTML5 video, please?

Use Google Chrome and install this Chrome extension

https://chrome.google.com/extensions...gplihnenhgeipf

it makes all youtube videos to html5.

[chatty]

So this means this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDadhfHzoLY can be done on linux? Cuz all multitouch video's I've seen with Qt and KDE tech are on Win 7 and I'd love to see it on linux ;-)

I've had no time to check the Qt 4.6 sources yet, but if it can read events from XInput2 then yes it should be possible. Lots of loose ends remain, though.