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Re: MPEG4 in IDL [message #34363 is a reply to message #34273]

Mon, 03 March 2003 13:23

Haje Korth
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Registered: May 1997

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Rick,
thanks for your hint. I had heard of the AVI DLM before but I did not not
that you can use it with other codecs. Now I just have to convince Ronn to
produce an IDL 5.6 compatible version....

Greetings,
Haje

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"Rick Towler" <rtowler@u.washington.edu> wrote in message
news:b404fc$22ps$1@nntp6.u.washington.edu...
>
> "Haje Korth" wrote...
>
>> I was wondering if anyone has written MPEG4 videos in IDL yet. If so,
> please
>> let me know how to get/compile the necessary libraries. Thanks for
> helping.
>
> Yes and no. Are people encoding their IDL animations using MPEG4, yes.
Is
> this being done in IDL, no.
>
> There have been a few hints here and there that people were thinking about
> writing a platform independent <insert codec here>.dlm but I think that
> these projects all stall when the authors learn the amount of work
involved.
> For most it is hard to justify the investment in time when you can simply
> write the frames in IDL and use another application to encode them into
the
> movie file of choice.
>
> The only .dlm I know of which allows you to create MPEG4 videos in IDL is
> Ronn Kling's aviIDL package. This windows only dlm is essentially a
wrapper
> for the video for windows interface which allows you to use the codecs
> installed on your machine to encode frames from within IDL. You still
will
> need to come up with the codec yourself. The dlm can be found here:
> http://www.kilvarock.com/freesoftware/dlms/avi.htm
>
> -Rick
>
>

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		MPEG4 in IDL By: Haje Korth on Fri, 28 February 2003 07:58
		Re: MPEG4 in IDL By: R.Bauer on Mon, 03 March 2003 10:20
		Re: MPEG4 in IDL By: Rick Towler on Mon, 03 March 2003 09:47
		Re: MPEG4 in IDL By: Haje Korth on Mon, 03 March 2003 13:23
		Re: MPEG4 in IDL By: Haje Korth on Tue, 04 March 2003 05:00
		Re: MPEG4 in IDL By: Rick Towler on Mon, 03 March 2003 14:25

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