This problem has annoyed me too recently. I have taken to designing looping animations
that accelerate/decelerate so that they pause as the player loops. This looks
perfectly
natural, although not applicable in all cases.

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Andy

Gordon wrote in message <36e85b4f.0@news.povray.org>...
>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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>
>

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