Here goes nothing:
http://www.asamnet.de/~altendom/irtcstuff/index.html

(Notice for future archive diggers: This address will be 
404'd once the real IRTC is again updated... it is not 
intended to be permanent.)

If, for now, you want your movie to appear in that list, 
too, and you've entered this round of the IRTC animations, 
please either send me the files to publish *) or just a link 
to the three IRTC files **).

*) This means i need to put them on my webspace. Don't send 
your files if you're not OK with that! As for the mail 
address, try the one from the news header :)

**) In that case, i'll link to your files. If you remove 
them from your webspace, the links will be broken.

-Markus

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"Markus Altendorff" <maa### [at] anthrosphinxde> wrote in message
news:45ba726e@news.povray.org...
> Here goes nothing:
> http://www.asamnet.de/~altendom/irtcstuff/index.html
>
> (Notice for future archive diggers: This address will be
> 404'd once the real IRTC is again updated... it is not
> intended to be permanent.)
>
> If, for now, you want your movie to appear in that list,
> too, and you've entered this round of the IRTC animations,
> please either send me the files to publish *) or just a link
> to the three IRTC files **).
>
> *) This means i need to put them on my webspace. Don't send
> your files if you're not OK with that! As for the mail
> address, try the one from the news header :)
>
> **) In that case, i'll link to your files. If you remove
> them from your webspace, the links will be broken.
>
> -Markus

Ok Markus -
I just emailed you my animation submission. Like I said, this is my
first time. Tell me what you think......I know I could have added
a lot more detail.....I watched yours, and you kicked my ass.
So can you tell me why your 9.5 meg animation is 5 times longer
than my 9.5 meg animation. Do you use a compression program?
Just trying to find answers and learn...........

dbott

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dbott wrote:

> Ok Markus -
> I just emailed you my animation submission. Like I said, this is my
> first time. Tell me what you think......I know I could have added
> a lot more detail.....I watched yours, and you kicked my ass.
> So can you tell me why your 9.5 meg animation is 5 times longer
> than my 9.5 meg animation. Do you use a compression program?
> Just trying to find answers and learn...........

Usually, i'm rendering out the frames as 720x360 (720 means 
it's not going to be re-scaled, just letterboxed when it 
goes to DVD, which has 720x576 size).

I'm a mac guy, so this is a quicktime .mov file, with jpeg 
at maximum quality. About 600 MB for 3:44. I export that to 
DV stream AVI, and copy it over to my PC (haven't found a 
well-working MPEG compressor for mac yet...).

I run that file through TMPEGenc (which has a very 
unscrupulous setting of 320 kbits/sec for video + 32 
kbit/sec mono audio) with an output size of 320x160). I try 
to ignore the horrible compression artefacts :) and that's 
about it.

Without a soundtrack, you may go to 360 kbit video for 9.99 
MB at 3:44.

I've picked that time when i was using Astarte's M.Pack, 
which had a lowest possible 360 kBit preset for that. Ah, 
the days of MacOS 9... long gone, as is M.Pack.

-Markus

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dbott wrote:
> "Markus Altendorff" <maa### [at] anthrosphinxde> wrote in message
> news:45ba726e@news.povray.org...
>> Here goes nothing:
>> http://www.asamnet.de/~altendom/irtcstuff/index.html

OK, David "dbott" Cuny's "Dancing with Moai" is available now.

-Markus

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"Markus Altendorff" <maa### [at] anthrosphinxde> wrote in message
news:45bb7020@news.povray.org...
> dbott wrote:
> > "Markus Altendorff" <maa### [at] anthrosphinxde> wrote in
message
> > news:45ba726e@news.povray.org...
> >> Here goes nothing:
> >> http://www.asamnet.de/~altendom/irtcstuff/index.html
>
> OK, David "dbott" Cuny's "Dancing with Moai" is available now.
>
> -Markus

oops  --
That's not me. dbott is "Darin"........I emailed my 3 files in win zip,
did you receive them? And, thank you for the explanation on the way
you produce your animation. If you did not receive my files,
I will email a link where you can download them.

Thanx   dbott

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"dbott" <dbo### [at] eastsoundsuitescom> wrote in message
news:45bb898d$1@news.povray.org...
>
> "Markus Altendorff" <maa### [at] anthrosphinxde> wrote in message
> news:45bb7020@news.povray.org...
> > dbott wrote:
> > > "Markus Altendorff" <maa### [at] anthrosphinxde> wrote in
> message
> > > news:45ba726e@news.povray.org...
> > >> Here goes nothing:
> > >> http://www.asamnet.de/~altendom/irtcstuff/index.html
> >
> > OK, David "dbott" Cuny's "Dancing with Moai" is available now.
> >
> > -Markus
>
> oops  --
> That's not me. dbott is "Darin"........I emailed my 3 files in win zip,
> did you receive them? And, thank you for the explanation on the way
> you produce your animation. If you did not receive my files,
> I will email a link where you can download them.
>
> Thanx   dbott
>
>

Markus
I set up a page where you can get the 3 filles. It is
http://www.eastsoundsuites.com/animation

Thank you...dbott

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dbott wrote:

> oops  --
> That's not me. dbott is "Darin"........I emailed my 3 files in win zip,
> did you receive them? And, thank you for the explanation on the way
> you produce your animation. If you did not receive my files,
> I will email a link where you can download them.

Alright, i'm fetching them now. Should be up in ten minutes. 
Sorry for the name mix-up, i've not yet received your zip 
file. I guess my mailbox isn't half as tough  as i thought, 
or the zip has triggered some over-zealous antivirus blocker 
- come to think about it, if a run-of-the-mill 50 kByte 
virus is nasty, imagine the havoc a 10-MB-virus could wreak ;)

-Markus

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Hi, Markus

Thanks for hosting the files.

-- David "dcuny" Cuny

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"Markus Altendorff" <maa### [at] anthrosphinxde> wrote in message
news:45bbc459@news.povray.org...
> dbott wrote:
>
> > oops  --
> > That's not me. dbott is "Darin"........I emailed my 3 files in win zip,
> > did you receive them? And, thank you for the explanation on the way
> > you produce your animation. If you did not receive my files,
> > I will email a link where you can download them.
>
> Alright, i'm fetching them now. Should be up in ten minutes.
> Sorry for the name mix-up, i've not yet received your zip
> file. I guess my mailbox isn't half as tough  as i thought,
> or the zip has triggered some over-zealous antivirus blocker
> - come to think about it, if a run-of-the-mill 50 kByte
> virus is nasty, imagine the havoc a 10-MB-virus could wreak ;)
>
> -Markus

Cool - Thank you Markus,
It's nice to see it there. Well a pseudo irtc page is better than nothing.
What's up with this guy http://billmarrs.com/ - he is on the irtc
admin team and has an active web page. Has anyone talk to him?

Once again thanx, the page looks great.....

dbott

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dbott wrote:

> It's nice to see it there. Well a pseudo irtc page is better than nothing.
> What's up with this guy http://billmarrs.com/ - he is on the irtc
> admin team and has an active web page. Has anyone talk to him?

I've sent a mail. He's updating his LiveJournal entry rather regularly, 
so i'm hoping we'll hear back from him soon.

-Markus

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Me wrote (replying to a message from dbott in another thread 
about contacting Bill Marrs):
> I've sent a mail. He's updating his LiveJournal entry rather regularly, 
> so i'm hoping we'll hear back from him soon.

I've received his reply (wow, that was quick), but he's not 
had any contact with the IRTC/admins at all for almost two 
years now, and really doesn't want to get re-involved (and i 
fully understand - check his LiveJournal, i guess he has 
enough at hands already, and his priorities set 
differently). He suggested we might need to talk to the 
"master admins" (i.e. POVray.org) about the situation.

Comments?

-Markus

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I've been following this (and the stills thread). If I understand correctly:

* Both the Stills and Animation rounds are weeks overdue.
* There appears to only be a single IRTC admin.
* The IRTC admin hasn't responded to email, the mailing list, or this list.

Is that right? It seems odd that there's not even a backup admin for the
contest.

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"David Cuny" <dcu### [at] lansetcom> wrote in message
news:web.45bce760678d470cb55da6960@news.povray.org...
> I've been following this (and the stills thread). If I understand
correctly:
>
> * Both the Stills and Animation rounds are weeks overdue.
> * There appears to only be a single IRTC admin.
> * The IRTC admin hasn't responded to email, the mailing list, or this
list.
>
> Is that right? It seems odd that there's not even a backup admin for the
> contest.
>
>

David -
I think it is one person and he is done with it.......
Hence the beginning of the year.
dbott

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"dbott" <dbo### [at] eastsoundsuitescom> wrote:
> "David Cuny" <dcu### [at] lansetcom> wrote in message
> news:web.45bce760678d470cb55da6960@news.povray.org...
> > I've been following this (and the stills thread). If I understand
> correctly:
> >
> > * Both the Stills and Animation rounds are weeks overdue.
> > * There appears to only be a single IRTC admin.
> > * The IRTC admin hasn't responded to email, the mailing list, or this
> list.
> >
> > Is that right? It seems odd that there's not even a backup admin for the
> > contest.
> >
> >
>
> David -
> I think it is one person and he is done with it.......
> Hence the beginning of the year.
> dbott

Let us hope nothing happend to him ...

    Bruno

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Markus,

Tried sending you my entry but gmail says the delivery is delayed, is
45ba726e@news.povray.org the correct e-mail address (I assumed the
newsgroup software forwards it on to the real private e-mail).

Cheers
Rob

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i_need_a_unique_name wrote:
> Tried sending you my entry but gmail says the delivery is delayed, is
> 45ba726e@news.povray.org the correct e-mail address (I assumed the
> newsgroup software forwards it on to the real private e-mail).

That is *not* an email address but a newsgroup message id ... naturally, you
cannot send email to a message id.

	Thorsten

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i_need_a_unique_name schrieb:
> Markus,
> 
> Tried sending you my entry but gmail says the delivery is delayed, is
> 45ba726e@news.povray.org the correct e-mail address (I assumed the
> newsgroup software forwards it on to the real private e-mail).

I guess not... ;) try irtc @ panoramas.de (isn't the sender's address 
displayed in the message view of newsreaders? I'm using Thunderbird, but 
i may have been too assuming in what's usually displayed and what not...)

-Markus

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> displayed in the message view of newsreaders? I'm using Thunderbird, but

I was using the povray web page to view these news links, only e-mail
address was that  newsgroup id ... zoiks 14 years in the IT industry and I
can still sometimes comeout looking like a noob... ;-)

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i_need_a_unique_name wrote:
> 
> I was using the povray web page to view these news links, only e-mail
> address was that  newsgroup id ... zoiks 14 years in the IT industry and I
> can still sometimes comeout looking like a noob... ;-)

Isn't that supposed to be spelled "n00b"? ;)

OK, we're up to six previews for Oct-Jan now!

<quiet>Rusty...?</quiet>

I went all fancy CSS and stuff on the preview page (well, a 
little), so please drop me a note if it's now "b0rken" in 
your browser (it shouldn't, but these days, you never know), 
in which case i'll go back to basics.

http://www.asamnet.de/~altendom/irtcstuff/20070115/index.php

-Markus

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Markus Altendorff wrote:

> <quiet>Rusty...?</quiet>

In the mail.

Regards,
John

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John VanSickle wrote:
> Markus Altendorff wrote:
> 
>> <quiet>Rusty...?</quiet>
> 
> In the mail.

Aaand - on the web! I guess this is the one we've all been waiting 
for... (no offense to all others, but in my brain, when i think of IRTC, 
i see robots moving around ;)

<giggle>Ha! Was the first one to get to look at it!</giggle>

http://www.asamnet.de/~altendom/irtcstuff/20070115/index.php

(it's at the bottom of the list - sorry, alphabetical order can do that 
to files starting with "r"...)

(and i took the liberty to rename it from "rusty" to "rusty032" - trying 
to keep it with the IRTC's "incoming" filenames)

<spoiler>(and, well, watching it closely, you can actually see the 
un-pixelized shadow of a naked ladybot...) </spoiler>

There. If that isn't going to trash my bandwidth, nothing will. :)

-M

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Hi,

first, a big "thank you" to all that gave me permission to 
show their files. As i said when i began the preview page, 
i'm going to close it once the IRTC is back.

Well, it is, and so i did :)

I'm not quite sure what to make of the IRTC hiatus or the 
non-voting for the round, but whatever helps the admins will 
be OK, i guess.

Going to take a look at the stills now...

-Markus

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