Thomas Willhalm <tho### [at] uni-konstanzde> wrote:
> It can
> convert almost everything to everything, including a set of PNGs to
> MPEG4 (aka divx/avi).

  Just nitpicking, but it's wrong to say "MPEG4, also known as divx/avi".

  MPEG4 is not divx nor avi.
  DivX is either a pure subset of MPEG4, or it's heavily based on a subset
of MPEG4 (I don't really know which). It's wrong to say that MPEG4 *is* DivX
(and if you are saying it the other way around, you have to remember to use
the words "subset of" because DivX does not implement everything the MPEG4
standard defines).

  Comparing it to AVI is even worse, as AVI has nothing to do with mpeg
standards. AVI is simply a multimedia container format which can contain
virtually anything in any format.

> BTW, an animated gif is very bad, because it uses only 256 colours and 
> the compression in GIFs is patented.

  According to someone the patent expires in the very near future.

-- 
#macro N(D)#if(D>99)cylinder{M()#local D=div(D,104);M().5,2pigment{rgb M()}}
N(D)#end#end#macro M()<mod(D,13)-6mod(div(D,13)8)-3,10>#end blob{
N(11117333955)N(4254934330)N(3900569407)N(7382340)N(3358)N(970)}//  - Warp -

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