> Does the famous-infamous ;-) 1 meg limit for animation files still
> apply? If yes, what about establishing a separate binaries newsgroup for
> people who are lucky enough to have DSL connections and/or wanting to
> post large animations? I could imagine that many here would like to see
> such a group...

Nice idea...

...however... the problem is that might mean that all the really cool
animations get put on povray.big-binarys.animations, and nothing gets put on
povray.binaries.animations any more... would be a shame if animations become
purely the presurve of people with fast net connections... :-(

I agree though, it's tough trying to make stuff fit... especially since the
NNTP protocol seems to mandate ASCII-encoding all bianry attachments... I've
discovered that MPEG can be made to fit, but only with insane bitrates...
50k/sec, anyone? +^S

[This is where someone posts a message saying "what we really need is some
super-fantastic new codec that can compress anything into the size of a
peanut"... If only it were that simple! ;-)]

Thanks.
Andrew

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