Thanks for the suggestions Cliff. I found that it was the player, it is
basically harder to play AVIs than FLIs as FLIs are (or can be) specifically
built to loop quickly. That is the file structure, not the animation itself.
My animations were looping perfectly as FLIs, but when I created AVIs, there
was a stutter at the loop point. The frames were still OK, it was just the
replay rate sags a shade when it rewinds. (I am something of a perfectionist
on this sort of stuff and love creating loops where you can't see the join
and trying to make them look longer than they really are!)

Thanks
Gordon

Cliff Bowman wrote in message <36e7c95e.64291138@news.povray.org>...
>On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 10:33:46 +0800, "Gordon"
><gbe### [at] birdcameroncomau> wrote:
>
>>Hi All,
>>
>>I have a couple of questions regarding animation files. I used to do
>>everything with FLI files until recently, using an old copy of DTA(1992?).
>>
>>I just got the new version and it is great. I now make AVI files. They are
>>much more compact and are full colour. But, how can I make them loop
cleanly
>>like a FLI. I believe this is to do with the player, it has a pause
between
>>the end and the start when you turn on looping. Are there any players that
>>will cleanly loop an AVI file? Also can anyone suggest a player that stays
>>open after playing the file, or defaults to looping on open. I find I
double
>>click on a file to try it and it disappears before you even see it.
>
>First off - not looping round to the start of an AVI is either going
>to be a problem with the animation (not using the Cyclic option, or
>not returning objects to their original locations - nearly - by the
>end of the animation etc. etc.) or it's going to be a RAM problem.
>windows loves RAM, pretty much the mre the merrier (although IIRC
>there are problems at the 1 or 2 GB boundaries... but that isn't an
>issue for most of us).
>
>Windows's media player can be set t loop video files (BTW do you have
>Media Player2 ? Free update from MS). Try opening a video file
>(perhaps use right-click in Explorer and select "Open" rather than
>"play" or double-clicking). Once it's loaded select "Options" from the
>"View" menu. You should be able to set continuous looping (or replay)
>from there.
>
>Just to make things simple, Media Player was superceeded by
>ActiveMovie, which has now been superceeded by Media Player 2.
>Obvious, relaly...
>
>Sorry - can't help with anything else.
>
>
>Cheers,
>
>Cliff Bowman
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