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5 Jul 2024 10:45:51 EDT (-0400)
  Re: First 100% command-line-only animation project, scene file to anim (MPEG4)  
From: Tek
Date: 24 Jul 2005 08:24:39
Message: <42e38887@news.povray.org>
Greg M. Johnson wrote:
> It's funny.  I've often found that even the best MPG encoders (TMPGENc) 
> would often choke on an extremely short and boring (little action, lotsa 
> black) animations-- something must have just gone wrong with the processing 
> in the MPG encoding algorithm. I would (IIRC) get no anim at all-- no .MPG 
> file.

That's wierd. I've never had any problems with TMPGEnc, even on pretty 
short anims (though I tend to never do anything shorter than about 25 
frames). Have you tried using different compression modes? I always use 
"Constant Quality" at 25fps and everything else is just default options.

Tek


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