Peter Santo wrote:

> Maybe many of the readers have the same problem I have: disk space. As
> far as I understand the mpeg standard it should be possible to generate
> mpeg output directly from pov, without having to store every one and
> single frame of an animaton on disk before compressing.
>
> Here is the idea:
>
> - Tell povray the sequence scheme of I/P/B frames.
>
> - Write single frames into files (e.g. ppm)
>
> - Every time an I-frame is generated, compress the last I-to-I sequence,
> append it to the mpeg file, generate a valid mpeg header and delete the
> uncompressed images.
>

Just use QuickTime. It already does all of this and renders directly to
MPEG without the extra steps.

steve

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