There are several things:
1. The variable "clock". It moves from 0 to 1 during the
beginning to the end of the animation.
2. The ini-settings KFI and KFF. You set them
like this:
+KFI1 +KFF150
This would result in 150 frames numbered 001 to 150.
3. An MPEG-Encoder, like TMPEGENC
(http://www.tmpgenc.net/) can then load the images
and encode an MPEG from it.

Thats a very rough version.
The ini-settings belong either into the commandline or the
accompanying ini-file, the clock into the scene-file. E.g. if
an object should move upward during the animation,
using translate y*10*clock would move it 10 units upward
along the y-acis while the clock moves from 0 to 1.

Last but not least, POV-Ray outputs a handful of images,
which are each a frame of the animation. POV-Ray doesn't
encode MPEG or AVI by itself, you need an Encoder for
that.

Regards,
Tim

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Tim Nikias
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Email: Tim### [at] gmxde

> I'm a new user and I have just understand the concept of the animation in
> POVray. I opened the example animation file in the POVray programme, with
> the ini file, and I can see the ball moving. But until now I cannot see
> anything that is in mpeg or avi file to browse the movies. Would you
please
> teach me about how to make animation in mpeg file?
>
> Sorry for my poor english.
>

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