| Re: Animations: A can or worms? [message #38081 is a reply to message #38024] |
Thu, 19 February 2004 09:53   |
JD Smith
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Registered: December 1999
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On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 11:00:28 -0500, Haje Korth wrote:
> Reimar,
> thanks for your suggestion. However, I really like to go with a file format
> that can be used with a standard software (see other replies). As I said
> AVI2IDL is really pretty good. So as a Windoof user I am happy and I feel
> sorry for UNIX people that are not able to use it...
Unix users might want to take a look at MEncoder, the encoding half of the
very popular free swiss-army video player MPlayer
(http://www.mplayerhq.hu). Both can playback and encode essentially any
format under the sun (often producing better quality animations in
less time than commercial encoders). The list of supported codecs is
actually somewhat frightening:
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/codecs-status.html.
Of interest to IDL users is the ability to encode to many of the various
codecs and container formats from a large pile of PNG files; see:
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/menc-feat-enc-images.ht ml
This include MNG, the PNG analog of animated GIFs, along with
MPEG1-3, WMV1/2, DiVX3,4,5, etc. through the open source libavcodec
package bundled inside of MPlayer/MEncoder (and others).
Anyway, I've not experimented with it, but it's been in the back of my
mind for when that next animation project pops up. If anyone plays with
it, I'd appreciate feedback on which codes/formats produce the best
results for various types of animations. Beware that the
installation/compilation process can be somewhat involved.
JD
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