POV-Ray : Newsgroups : irtc.animations : Advice re: MainActor : Re: Advice re: MainActor Server Time
27 Jul 2024 08:22:34 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Advice re: MainActor  
From: John VanSickle
Date: 16 Jan 2000 15:39:43
Message: <38822E61.C16847EC@erols.com>
Greg M. Johnson wrote:
> 
> I am using MainActor to compile my images into an animation. I had to
> try to submit (THE SAME!!) entry about 7 times before it would be
> accepted by IRTC.
> 
> My entry was being rejected for failing the "mpeg_stat -verify -quiet"
> test.  Using little but intuition, I changed some settings in
> MainActor to eliminate all audio data from the file.  This recompiled
> animation worked.
> 
> Just some advice for anyone who has trouble getting IRTC to accept
> MainActor-compiled animations.......

Some kind soul who meant well sent me his copy of MainActor; after
using it a few times on the last round of the IRTC, I noticed
artifacting that wasn't present in the output of CMPEG (ie, CMPEG was
producing better-quality work).  I went back to using CMPEG.

Regards,
John
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