Bill Hails wrote:
> Hi
> Do any of you use linux for pov animations?
> if so, what do you use to stitch together the frames into
> a movie?
> 
> I've found imagemagik's "convert" which can make animated gifs,
> I was wondering if there was anything that will make mpegs.
> 
I use ppmtompeg, a tool from the netpbm set, just set the output file 
type in POV-Ray to ppm and run through ppmtompeg.  The only trick is to 
produce the *par file that tells ppmtompeg a bunch of parameters for 
proper encoding.  I play the resulting mpegs with plaympeg.  For some 
reason that escapes me, xine does not play the full mpeg, mplayer does 
not seem to have problems, though.  To make animated gifs I use ppmtogif 
  and then gifsicle.  I usually have to reduce the number of colors 
because gifs can only handle 256 colors, and my raytraced images have at 
least several thousand colors.

So, in my povray.ini file I have to set up Output_Type=P, then produce 
the frames and run them through ppmtompeg.
If I want animated gifs, I run my ppm files through ppmtogif and make 
the animation with gifsicle.

I have a shell script that does all those operations for me, and I could 
send you the parameter file for ppmtompeg, if you are interested.

Have a nice day

Victor

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