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Re: Problem with MJ2 extension [message #60665 is a reply to message #60533]

Tue, 27 May 2008 15:00

tarequeaziz
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Registered: November 2007

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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.

Mark, thanks a lot for the suggestion....!!!

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		Re: Problem with MJ2 extension By: Mark[1] on Sun, 25 May 2008 16:06
		Re: Problem with MJ2 extension By: tarequeaziz on Tue, 27 May 2008 15:00
		Re: Problem with MJ2 extension By: wgallery on Tue, 27 May 2008 06:58
		Re: Problem with MJ2 extension By: Haje Korth on Tue, 27 May 2008 05:14

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