| Re: Problem with MJ2 extension [message #60533] |
Sun, 25 May 2008 16:06  |
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Mark[1]
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On May 24, 4:16 pm, tarequea...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello IDL gurus,
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> I am having some trouble regarding '.mj2' extension. I have couple of
> '.gif' files and by using IDLffMJPEG2000
> I can get some nice animation. But the fun just ends there.I need to
> have these on a more 'portable' formats as in : avi,mpeg,mov etc. A
> little searching on the net did not bring anything home.
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> I was hoping to get some pointers on how to convert these mj2's avi/
> mpeg/ mov etc.
For now, writing MJPEG-2000 animations is a waste of time because
there's very little software to play the file or convert it to
something else. You're better off writing from IDL straight to the
format you want. There's some discussion on this right now on a thread
entitled "animated png: a new format for scientific animations".
In addition to being poorly supported, MJPEG-2000 suffers another
limitation that makes it not very good for scientific animations: it
fails to make any use of inter-frame compression methods. This means
the files are much larger than they need to be.
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| Re: Problem with MJ2 extension [message #60665 is a reply to message #60533] |
Tue, 27 May 2008 15:00  |
tarequeaziz
Messages: 20
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On May 25, 7:06 pm, Mark <mark.h...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On May 24, 4:16 pm, tarequea...@gmail.com wrote:
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>> Hello IDL gurus,
>
>> I am having some trouble regarding '.mj2' extension. I have couple of
>> '.gif' files and by using IDLffMJPEG2000
>> I can get some nice animation. But the fun just ends there.I need to
>> have these on a more 'portable' formats as in : avi,mpeg,mov etc. A
>> little searching on the net did not bring anything home.
>
>> I was hoping to get some pointers on how to convert these mj2's avi/
>> mpeg/ mov etc.
>
> For now, writing MJPEG-2000 animations is a waste of time because
> there's very little software to play the file or convert it to
> something else. You're better off writing from IDL straight to the
> format you want. There's some discussion on this right now on a thread
> entitled "animated png: a new format for scientific animations".
>
> In addition to being poorly supported, MJPEG-2000 suffers another
> limitation that makes it not very good for scientific animations: it
> fails to make any use of inter-frame compression methods. This means
> the files are much larger than they need to be.
Mark, thanks a lot for the suggestion....!!!
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| Re: Problem with MJ2 extension [message #60669 is a reply to message #60533] |
Tue, 27 May 2008 06:58 |
wgallery
Messages: 32
Registered: December 1998
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On May 25, 7:06 pm, Mark <mark.h...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On May 24, 4:16 pm, tarequea...@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> Hello IDL gurus,
>
>> I am having some trouble regarding '.mj2' extension. I have couple of
>> '.gif' files and by using IDLffMJPEG2000
>> I can get some nice animation. But the fun just ends there.I need to
>> have these on a more 'portable' formats as in : avi,mpeg,mov etc. A
>> little searching on the net did not bring anything home.
>
>> I was hoping to get some pointers on how to convert these mj2's avi/
>> mpeg/ mov etc.
>
> For now, writing MJPEG-2000 animations is a waste of time because
> there's very little software to play the file or convert it to
> something else. You're better off writing from IDL straight to the
> format you want. There's some discussion on this right now on a thread
> entitled "animated png: a new format for scientific animations".
>
> In addition to being poorly supported, MJPEG-2000 suffers another
> limitation that makes it not very good for scientific animations: it
> fails to make any use of inter-frame compression methods. This means
> the files are much larger than they need to be.
FYI:
MJPEG-2000 files can be played on MS Media Player if you install the M-
JPEG codec V3 from Morgan Multimedia
http://www.morgan-multimedia.com/index.htm
Note: it says that this is a trial version that expires Oct, 2007, but
it still runs after popping a reminder window.
Bill Gallery
Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc.
Lexington, MA
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| Re: Problem with MJ2 extension [message #60670 is a reply to message #60533] |
Tue, 27 May 2008 05:14 |
Haje Korth
Messages: 651
Registered: May 1997
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I agree that the MJ2 format is still poorly supported. But the fact that no
inter-frame compression is used is THE advantage of the format. This way
each image accurately represents the underlying scientific dataset and
individual images are not smeared by the codec algortihm. It is accuracy
that matters, not file size!
Haje
"Mark" <mark.hadf@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:f8abc45e-0628-4f6a-96d7-a35715f5c63a@v26g2000prm.google groups.com...
> On May 24, 4:16 pm, tarequea...@gmail.com wrote:
>> Hello IDL gurus,
>>
>> I am having some trouble regarding '.mj2' extension. I have couple of
>> '.gif' files and by using IDLffMJPEG2000
>> I can get some nice animation. But the fun just ends there.I need to
>> have these on a more 'portable' formats as in : avi,mpeg,mov etc. A
>> little searching on the net did not bring anything home.
>>
>> I was hoping to get some pointers on how to convert these mj2's avi/
>> mpeg/ mov etc.
>
> For now, writing MJPEG-2000 animations is a waste of time because
> there's very little software to play the file or convert it to
> something else. You're better off writing from IDL straight to the
> format you want. There's some discussion on this right now on a thread
> entitled "animated png: a new format for scientific animations".
>
> In addition to being poorly supported, MJPEG-2000 suffers another
> limitation that makes it not very good for scientific animations: it
> fails to make any use of inter-frame compression methods. This means
> the files are much larger than they need to be.
>
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