Bink is better for mpeg quality animations/movies.
Frame rate is the number of frames that are displayed per second. Think of a
flip book. You know the little books that have an image on each corner of
the page. Each images is slightly different (i.e. the location of an arm or
leg, a frown turning to a smaile, etc...) Well if you flip the pages and
look at the images, the images seem to come alive, or animate. The faster
you flip the pages the faster the animation runs. This is the same idea of a
frame rate...

Hope that helps
regards,

Rene <rhe### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message
news:39B497F4.F031ED96@hotmail.com...
> I've tried Smaker too. If I create an AVI there are the same options to
choose
> from. Can somebody explain to me what exactly key frame rate and data rate
> options do? Smaker and Bink look very interesting but I don't really like
the
> advertisement at the end of the movie and I really need a format that will
run
> from a CD on (almost) ANY system (OK I could make an exe... I agree...
great
> option...but...).
>
> (By the way what are the differences and advantages between Smaker and
Bink
> formats? Which one is better for gray scale animations and which for
color?)
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> Rene
>
> "C.J. - POV User" schrieb:
>
> > I'm not familar with that tool, I use Smaker by Rad Game Tools. Best of
all
> > its free!!!
> > http://www.radgametools.com/
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Rene <rhe### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message
> > news:39B### [at] hotmailcom...
> > > I'm trying to create an avi file from a sequence of images using the
> > > freeware tool pjbmp2avi.exe!
> > > I want these files to be played from a CD. I've tried Cinepak Codec
with
> > > the following settings: Compressionquality 100, Keyframe: 1, Datarate:
> > > 300 KB/s.
> > >
> > > I've also tried other compressions but I can't get it to work. The
file
> > > is fine when started from the harddrive. I asume the player loads the
> > > whole thing into memory first. It's just way to slow (0.2 fps!) when
> > > running from CD (40x CD drive).
> > >
> > > Any suggestions regarding alternate (free) tools for creating avi
files
> > > and which settings should best be used would be VERY helpful.
> > >
> > > Thanks a lot in advance,
> > >
> > > Rene
> > >
>

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