>> Can't POV-ray make animation itself?
>
> POV-Ray is a renderer, not an animation programm.
>
> POV-Ray can render the various stills needed for your animation, but it 
> can't take them to generate the video. The reason, is that there are just 
> to many possible formats you may want, or need, to use: animated GIF, 
> animated PNG (MNG, MPG), AVI (many variations), JPG, JPEG, DivX, Xvid, 
> MOV, many others... And the fact that some of those need closed sourced, 
> proprietary software to do the job.

It would be useful though, if POV could make use of any codecs you have 
installed, like most other programs do that output a series of images 
designed to be animated.  AIUI all the hard work is done by the codec 
(including the options dialog boxes etc) so all POV would need to do is 
present the user with a list of codecs and then use the one that was 
selected.

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