In article <pan### [at] ntlworldcom> , "David Burnett" 
<var### [at] ntlworldcom> wrote:

> I would have thought so to, but diff claims the files are identical.
> I'm guessing that its a resource fork problem. I'll probably take
> this up with the mediapipe people.
>
> I'm just suprised there isn't a simple free command line utility
> for conveting a series pictures into an animation, they where ten
> a penny back in my Amiga days, which is the last time I actually
> tried to do this :-)

Well, it is you making some obscure mistake.  And so far all you did was say
"they don't play" and said the files are identical.  You didn't say where
the movies is placed, how it gets there or anything that can really be used
to help you.  So everybody can just be guessing what is your mistake, but
nobody can really help you.

Given that you ask for a command-line utility I assume you are on Mac OS X,
because it wouldn't make sense elsewhere. So follow these instructions:

1. Go to the System preferences: Sharing pane.

2. Enable Personal Web Sharing

3. At the bottom of the dialog, you should then see the selectable text:
"View this computer's web sites at http://most.likely.your.ip.address/ or
your personal web site at http://most.likely.your.ip.address/~username/"

4. Go to your "Home" folder.

5. Enter the folder "Sites".

6. Take the movie you have and copy it to this folder.  Make sure it has  a
proper extension ".mov" for the webserver to know what type of file it is.
Also, its filename should (for now) only consist of alphanumerical
characters, that is no spaces or other "odd" characters.

7. Now go to your computer's website listed as the _first_ URL in (3).

8. You should be seeing the default Apache website. If you don't see the
default Apache website something is screwed up on your computer (asumming
Person Web Sharing wasn't used previously).

9. Now go to your own website listed as the _second_ URL in (3).

10. To the given URL, append the filename of the movie copied in (6)

11. The movie will play.

    Thorsten

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Thorsten Froehlich, Duisburg, Germany
e-mail: tho### [at] trfde

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