On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 16:08:31 +0100, Marc Roth <mar### [at] rothconsultcom> wrote:
> hi everybody.
> is there a possibilty to have the output of a render as a jpg file? 
> because in the message window of povray it says "LibJPEG 6b, Copyright 
> 1998 Thomas G. Lane"... i didn't find a commandline-switch or something 
> to change the output to jpg, but if it's not possible, why mention the 
> JPEG-llibrary?

For reading?
http://www.google.com/search?q=site:www.povray.org+JPEG

> an alternative would be a program i can use in a batchfile to convert 
> files from bmp to jpg, if possible with low quality loss, like acdsee 
> does.

IrfanView ?

> i need this because i want to make an animation with 1500 frames, 
> but at 640x480 this would need 900kb per picture, resulting in almost 
> 1.5GB of files.

PNG format ?

> this would not be a problem if i were rendering on my 
> own pc, but i have to do it on another machine to which i have only slow 
> access via wlan.

SMPOV ?
http://www.it-berater.org/smpov.htm

ABX

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