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Re: Animations: A can or worms? [message #38092 is a reply to message #38024]

Wed, 18 February 2004 17:21

Rick Towler
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"Haje Korth" wrote...

> I went back to recompile AVI2IDL for IDL v6.0.

AFAIK, the same .dlm will work with at least 5.5-6.0 so you really don't
need to recompile.

> The codec questions is really a tough one. I want a codec that gives
> great animation quality, small file size, and cross-system compatibility.

Heh, you want it all. And I suppose you want it open source and free :)

> I actually got good quality and reasonable file size with the Indeo Video
> 5.10 codec.

The indeo5.1 and the sorenson codecs (quicktime pro) are pretty good for
animations created in IDL. Indeo5.1 is probably the most "compatible" as
decoders are available for the more common platforms.

I have found DivX and WindowsMedia9 codecs to be the best overall with full
motion animations and use these formats for presentations. Newer versions
of DivX should work with WMP as I have it working here.

> This makes me wonder, why isn't there an animation standard just like
> PDF for text documents?

Well it isn't for lack of trying. That's what QuickTime and WMV (to a
lesser extent) are working towards.

-Rick

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		Animations: A can or worms? By: Haje Korth on Tue, 17 February 2004 09:25
		Re: Animations: A can or worms? By: mperrin+news on Thu, 19 February 2004 18:00
		Re: Animations: A can or worms? By: andrew.cool on Thu, 19 February 2004 15:06
		Re: Animations: A can or worms? By: Rick Towler on Thu, 19 February 2004 12:34
		Re: Animations: A can or worms? By: Haje Korth on Fri, 20 February 2004 06:17
		Re: Animations: A can or worms? By: Haje Korth on Thu, 19 February 2004 11:59
		Re: Animations: A can or worms? By: Rick Towler on Thu, 19 February 2004 11:30
		Re: Animations: A can or worms? By: JD Smith on Thu, 19 February 2004 09:53
		Re: Animations: A can or worms? By: Haje Korth on Thu, 19 February 2004 06:55
		Re: Animations: A can or worms? By: Haje Korth on Thu, 19 February 2004 06:48
		Re: Animations: A can or worms? By: Haje Korth on Thu, 19 February 2004 06:43
		Re: Animations: A can or worms? By: Yunxiang Zhang on Wed, 18 February 2004 21:45
		Re: Animations: A can or worms? By: aardvark62 on Fri, 20 February 2004 11:26
		Re: Animations: A can or worms? By: Paul Sorenson on Wed, 18 February 2004 21:04
		Re: Animations: A can or worms? By: Rick Towler on Wed, 18 February 2004 17:21
		Re: Animations: A can or worms? By: Paul Sorenson on Wed, 18 February 2004 17:34
		Re: Animations: A can or worms? By: Michael Wallace on Wed, 18 February 2004 15:54
		Re: Animations: A can or worms? By: andrew.cool on Wed, 18 February 2004 15:21
		Re: Animations: A can or worms? By: Haje Korth on Wed, 18 February 2004 08:00
		Re: Animations: A can or worms? By: Haje Korth on Wed, 18 February 2004 07:57
		Re: Animations: A can or worms? By: R.Bauer on Wed, 18 February 2004 03:44
		Re: Animations: A can or worms? By: Michael Wallace on Tue, 17 February 2004 16:22
		Re: Animations: A can or worms? By: Yunxiang Zhang on Sat, 21 February 2004 12:32

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