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Re: MPEG and IDL 5.4 [message #23930]

Wed, 28 February 2001 12:20

Mark Hadfield
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Registered: May 1995

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"Rick Towler" <rtowler@u.washington.edu> wrote in message
news:gpan6.485546$U46.14550992@news1.sttls1.wa.home.com...
>
> After using the new and improved MPEG features in 5.4 I suggest brewing
your
> own animation. The improvements are much appreciated but the MPEG
> compression scheme isn't really designed for the types of animations
created
> from within IDL.

Hear hear

> Try it, if you are unhappy with the results write a PNG image for each
frame
> and use a program to string them together. I have used videomach on
windows
> (a shareware program) to create .avi files with great success but there
are
> many other programs that can do this.

My favourite delivery format for animations is FLC.

I have written a WWW page with a few notes on the pros & cons of different
animation formats. The page is a bit sketchy but if you want to read it, see

http://katipo.niwa.cri.nz/~hadfield/gust/software/animation/

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Mark Hadfield
m.hadfield@niwa.cri.nz http://katipo.niwa.cri.nz/~hadfield
National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research

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		Re: MPEG and IDL 5.4 By: Mark Hadfield on Wed, 28 February 2001 12:20
		Re: MPEG and IDL 5.4 By: Rick Towler on Wed, 28 February 2001 09:18
		Re: MPEG and IDL 5.4 By: davidf on Tue, 27 February 2001 21:14
		Re: MPEG and IDL 5.4 By: Mark Rivers on Tue, 27 February 2001 20:28

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