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Re: mpeg [message #35250 is a reply to message #3118]

Thu, 22 May 2003 14:44

Mark Hadfield
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Registered: May 1995

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"David Fanning" <david@dfanning.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.1936aa46109cd14a989bad@news.frii.com...
> David Chevrier (David.Chevrier@noaa.gov) writes:
>
>> hi - i know its possible to create mpegs using 5.6, but how about
>> reading them in. i'm trying to do something like open an mpeg and
>> take a jpeg snapshot of that mpeg at certain time intervals... say one
>> jpeg per second of mpeg. any idea if this can be done in idl?
>
> Oh, I'm sure it *can* be done in IDL. But if your question
> is really "Is it worth my time to do it in IDL?", then I think
> the answer is "No". (The answer is probably "Hell no", but I'm
> trying to clean up my act a little bit.)

I agree entirely. (That you need to clean up your act.)

> Get yourself a good MPEG player that can stop the movie
> where you want it and a good screen shot utility. There
> are lots for free or for little money on the web. You
> will be a LOT happier. :-)

For this sort of thing, I tend to favour ImageMagick, which is a
cross-platform suite of largely command-line tools. It supports what it
calls "delegates" for formats that it doesn't understand natively and last
time I looked it bundled simple MPEG endoder and decoder delegates.

http://www.imagemagick.org/

--

Mark Hadfield "Ka puwaha te tai nei, Hoea tatou"
m.hadfield@niwa.co.nz
National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)

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		Re: MPEG By: cboyd on Fri, 18 November 1994 17:30
		Re: MPEG By: David Fanning on Sat, 23 March 2002 09:02
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		Re: mpeg By: David Fanning on Thu, 22 May 2003 17:52
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