What Mpeg encoders do you all use?  I TRYED to use Cmpeg, but it won't
work... it just shows a document type thing in dos mode...




PS.  I sure hope i'm asking the right thing...  I have alot of graphic files
after done rendering and I want to make them into one file.  Animated Gif is
too big.  I want MPEG! please help.

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Exploit wrote:
> 
> What Mpeg encoders do you all use?  I TRYED to use Cmpeg, but it won't
> work... it just shows a document type thing in dos mode...
> 
> PS.  I sure hope i'm asking the right thing...  I have alot of graphic files
> after done rendering and I want to make them into one file.  Animated Gif is
> too big.  I want MPEG! please help.

See my links in povray.announce.frequently-asked-questions. I like Main Actor
while other like other programs. You will find several on the list to choose
from.

-- 
Ken Tyler

mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net

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Cmpeg can do okay so long as you use uncompressed targa (and a 512 by
384 resolution for 640K RAM, any other I don't know; also I believe
resolutions in multiples of 16 is best{?}), it's mostly a matter of
typing in the parameters on the command line right. I use a very
simplistic batch file. The file input is written something like:

 cmpeg -v0 -t1 ipb.ctl image%03d.tga animate.mpg

,less any other options; where image is the frames prefix, %03d is for
zero left-padded 3 digit frame numbers (the "d" is required), and then
the output name. -v1 (minus v zero) is message output off, -t1 (minus t
one) is the frame start number and ipb.ctl is the control file to use
for compression.


Exploit wrote:
> 
> What Mpeg encoders do you all use?  I TRYED to use Cmpeg, but it won't
> work... it just shows a document type thing in dos mode...
> 
> PS.  I sure hope i'm asking the right thing...  I have alot of graphic files
> after done rendering and I want to make them into one file.  Animated Gif is
> too big.  I want MPEG! please help.

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Bob Hughes heeft geschreven in bericht <377CC9EC.42273833@aol.com>...
>Cmpeg can do okay .........
> cmpeg -v0 -t1 ipb.ctl image%03d.tga animate.mpg
>
>,less any other options; where image is the frames prefix, %03d is for
>zero left-padded 3 digit frame numbers (the "d" is required), and then
>the output name. -v1 (minus v zero) is message output off, -t1 (minus t
>one) is the frame start number and ipb.ctl is the control file to use
>for compression.


When not using the list for inputoption,
start your animation at frame 0 (-t0)
otherwise it won't work.

ingo

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Met dank aan de muze met het glazen oog.

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wups! sorry, I just looked at the batch file I use. I have a -t0 in
there and yes I always use a start frame of 0 myself (normally POV would
use 1 so you would want to change that in POVs INI). Thanks for pointing
that out ingo.


ingo wrote:
> 
> Bob Hughes heeft geschreven in bericht <377CC9EC.42273833@aol.com>...
> >Cmpeg can do okay .........
> > cmpeg -v0 -t1 ipb.ctl image%03d.tga animate.mpg
> >
> >,less any other options; where image is the frames prefix, %03d is for
> >zero left-padded 3 digit frame numbers (the "d" is required), and then
> >the output name. -v1 (minus v zero) is message output off, -t1 (minus t
> >one) is the frame start number and ipb.ctl is the control file to use
> >for compression.
> 
> When not using the list for inputoption,
> start your animation at frame 0 (-t0)
> otherwise it won't work.
> 
> ingo
> 
> --
> Met dank aan de muze met het glazen oog.

-- 
 omniVERSE: beyond the universe
  http://members.aol.com/inversez/homepage.htm
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Exploit wrote:
> 
> What Mpeg encoders do you all use?  I TRYED to use Cmpeg, but it won't
> work... it just shows a document type thing in dos mode...
> 
> PS.  I sure hope i'm asking the right thing...  I have alot of graphic files
> after done rendering and I want to make them into one file.  Animated Gif is
> too big.  I want MPEG! please help.

Hello...
I once used some free program found on the WEB, with sometimes strange
results, tried to get some help from the makers, and got
the feeling that there is no support to be expected, which is
as expected in fact. So, I bought Vitec's MpegMaker, and I am quite
happy with that... It is parametrisable, although there are a lot of
pre-defined compression schemes. I remember that Vitec people told me
that it has some limitations if you try to go to large image video flux,
but I do not remember the details. I succeeded in encoding 640x480 video
flux (see for instance
http://www-obs.univ-lyon1.fr/~ga/galaxies.html).
Try www.vitec.com
I use bmp2avi when I need a high quality AVI video (not suitable for the
WEB, owing to the huge files generated).
MPEG is nice, but definitely lossy, even in "high quality" as
defined in MpegMaker. See for instance my animation of a solar eclipse
as seen from space, with a close fly-by of the moon, and the funny look
of the moon surface after MPEG compression (in a page parallel to the
one cited above).
Good luck...
Gilles Adam

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Hi,
MPEG 2 - Encoder From www.mpeg.org

I am still trying to work out a way of streaming both video and sound into
the same file and having major problems. But for some of my work I need a
larger image size than the likes of cmpeg will not provide. Grr.

So I use the standard encoder binaries. If anyone knows about better ones,
then please tell me.

Regards,
Luke Church
INT### [at] churchkaroocouk


Exploit wrote in message <377cc16b@news.povray.org>...
>What Mpeg encoders do you all use?  I TRYED to use Cmpeg, but it won't
>work... it just shows a document type thing in dos mode...
>
>
>
>
>PS.  I sure hope i'm asking the right thing...  I have alot of graphic
files
>after done rendering and I want to make them into one file.  Animated Gif
is
>too big.  I want MPEG! please help.
>
>

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