Look at
http://www.tmpgenc.net
for a rather good freeware encoder. If you look on the
DIVX site, they've got links to several encoders (some
of em free, some not).

With TMPGEnc, all you do is select the first frame
for animation, set the fps, data rate etc with
settings (on the lower right edge of the window) and
then hit Start (on the upper left edge of the window),
and it'll encode. Its pretty fast and you can easily
tweak and experiment with lower data rate to save
bandwidth etc...


--
Tim Nikias v2.0
Homepage: http://www.digitaltwilight.de/no_lights
Email: Tim### [at] gmxde

"Tom A." wrote:

> Hi.
> I ran into a problem creating an animation with CMPEG.  I rendered 500
> frames, 320x240, and used CMPEG to create an MPEG movie.  Unfortunately
> it came out to be 11 Meg).  The other problem is that it doesn't play on
> my WIN98 (233 Pentium, 160Meg memory) system.  Even my 433 WinNT system
> exhibits strange symptoms while running it.  The slide bar on Windows
> Media Player doesn't move while it plays, and, while it reaches the last
> frame and stops, the WMP doesn't seem to realize it finished.  The
> "Stop" button is still displayed and it doesn't loop.  Also, I can't use
> the slide to position the movie to individual frames.
>
> Anyone have any suggestions?
>
> Is there any other free software besides CMPEG for creating MPEG movies?
>
> Thanks.
>
> (The movie is the spaceship Valley Forge from the movie "Silent Running"
> passing in front of the camera.  There's another movie of it and a still
> picture at
> <http://www.geocities.com/meteoricshipyards> )
> --
> Tom A.
> I swear - one of these days I'll submit something to IRTC.
>

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