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28 Jul 2024 12:35:19 EDT (-0400)
  Re: High quality animations  
From: Fabien Hénon
Date: 2 Aug 2000 08:47:49
Message: <3987FC94.6774F3E9@club-internet.fr>
Thanks, that's exactly what I was looking for.
My hard drive is going to suffer, but who cares today with Mega giga large
hard-drives that which go cheaper and cheaper.






> news:39871AD8.11B5E0D3@club-internet.fr...
> >
> > Is there on the net some software to create high quality animation ? By
>
> POV-Ray produces high-quality animation. :)
>
> > high quality, I mean close to the VOB files found on DVDs.
> > I tried avi with a conversion to MPEG ( with avi2mpg1 : Thanks Ken), but
> > there is a limitation in size : around 360x300.
>
> From avi2mpg1 readme.txt:
>             inputfile.avi   A windows avi file (you can now specify multiple
> input
>                             avi files for encoding to a single output file)
>                             constrained to the following parameters:
>
>                                  Horizontal size: < 4096 pixels
>                                  Vertical size:   < 4096 pixels
>
> [snip]
>
> Maybe you have an older version? And only use an uncompressed 24-bit RGB AVI
> as input or you won't be happy with the results. If you really want DVD
> quality then you might try bbMPEG/avi2mpg2
> http://members.home.net/beyeler/bbmpeg.html . I can't really recommend it
> since I haven't used it but supposedly it'll turn your AVI's into MPEG-1 or
> MPEG-2. Again I suggest only using uncompressed AVI's because recompressing
> lossy compression sucks... a lot... the MPEG-1 compression won't know the
> difference between the good part of an compressed AVI and the artifacts,
> it'll try to compress both equally, and waste a lot of space, and probably
> introduce more artifacts.
>
> Good Luck!


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