Steve Martin wrote:
> 
> > You can probably blame me for that one :)
> >
> > I posted a link to your site on the povray.org links page within 19 min.
> > of your announcement.
> 
> Ken:
> 
> Just for the sake of those (like me) whose NG server seems to have
> dropped some messages, 

You need to set your server properties for news.povray.org in Netscape.
"Keep all messages"

> can you tell me what site you're talking
> about? I'd like to check out another MPEG encoder, one that can
> handle PPMs, as I'm not happy with the quality I'm getting from the
> Berkeley package, but I never saw a message with the site URL.

I like the Berkeley encoder.  I think it produces pretty good mpegs,
and they are much much smaller than the likes of cmpeg.  Bummer that
it doesn't produce mpeg-2s.

Here's the settings i used on one run:

PATTERN IBBPBBPBBPBBPBB
OUTPUT e:\povwin3\Buckosoft\mpegs\tteoac.mpg
INPUT_DIR f:\povwin3\BuckoSoft\tteoac
INPUT
tteo*.ppm [0001-1752]
END_INPUT
BASE_FILE_FORMAT PPM
INPUT_CONVERT *
FORCE_ENCODE_LAST_FRAME
GOP_SIZE 30
SLICES_PER_FRAME 1
PIXEL HALF
RANGE 10
#PSEARCH_ALG LOGARITHMIC
#PSEARCH_ALG SUBSAMPLE
PSEARCH_ALG TWOLEVEL
#PSEARCH_ALG EXHAUSTIVE
BSEARCH_ALG CROSS2
#BSEARCH_ALG EXHAUSTIVE
IQSCALE 8
PQSCALE 10
BQSCALE 25
REFERENCE_FRAME DECODED

I tried the EXHAUSTIVE algorithm which increased the encoding time from about
6 hours to a couple of months without any real improvement in quality or size.

--
dik

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