Is it possible to have ELAN working on another architecture than 64-bit? something like arm for instance? has there been some tests in this direction?
Computer using arm processor are usually quite power efficient, so being able to use ELAN on it would be helpful for fieldwork.
Whether ELAN can run on any architecture depends on two things:
is a Java Runtime Environment available for that architecture. ELAN is a Java application and without a Java runtime environment it won’t launch.
is there a media player (with a Java ‘bridge’) available (in case of video, wave audio files probably work if there is a JRE). If there is a JRE for an architecture, there might also be a Java FX port, which would provide mp4 support. There might also be a VLC ‘bridging’ library, which would extend the support for different media formats considerably.
If these conditions are met, it’ll take some (re-)configuration efforts but it should be possible to get it working.
-Han