Is everyone using Cmpeg to generate animations from individual frames?

Are there any Win32 programs that will do this job better?

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Brian E Clough

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Brian E Clough wrote in message <35F### [at] tiacnet>...
>Is everyone using Cmpeg to generate animations from individual frames?

>

>Are there any Win32 programs that will do this job better?

>

>-- 

>Brian E Clough

>

>"An object at rest Cannot be stopped!!!"

>  -- The Evil Midnight Bomber (What Bombs At Midnight)


I use Xing MPEG Encoder. It is quite good and can compress sound too. I don't know if
it's free as it came with my video card. Their site is probably www.xing.com, but
don't quote me on this.

Peter

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Take a look at MainActor.   http://www.mainconcept.de

Ken



Brian E Clough wrote:

> Is everyone using Cmpeg to generate animations from individual frames?
>
> Are there any Win32 programs that will do this job better?
>
> --
> Brian E Clough
>
> "An object at rest Cannot be stopped!!!"
>   -- The Evil Midnight Bomber (What Bombs At Midnight)

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Brian E Clough wrote:
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> Is everyone using Cmpeg to generate animations from individual frames?
> 
> Are there any Win32 programs that will do this job better?
> 
> --
> Brian E Clough
> 
> "An object at rest Cannot be stopped!!!"
>   -- The Evil Midnight Bomber (What Bombs At Midnight)

It has nothing to do with the subject in a strict sense (MPEG) but I
find Fast Movie Processor quite a handy tool for making quick animations
out of a series of TGA-images. It handles image-series and turns them
into AVIs or the other way round. The advantage (I think) is that you
can use several types of compression and I hate to lose too much
quality. I know MPEG is far better in compressing, but more then once I
think people are ruining their work with it (for the sake of
compression).

Regards,

Remco

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Please, don't use bas64 encoding for writing, I just don't understand
what do you mean ;)

        Mike

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Mario Splivalo wrote in message <9mo/1MioQ+2J0### [at] jagorsrcehr>...
>In article <35fe504c.0@news.povray.org>,
>
>Please, don't use bas64 encoding for writing, I just don't understand
>what do you mean ;)
>
>        Mike

You are absolutely correct. I am sorry for the inconvenience Outlook seems
to come back to this default each time it's restarted. Here's a (hopefully
wokring) repost.

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Brian E Clough wrote in message <35F### [at] tiacnet>...
>Is everyone using Cmpeg to generate animations from individual frames?
>
>Are there any Win32 programs that will do this job better?
>
>--
>Brian E Clough
>
>"An object at rest Cannot be stopped!!!"
>  -- The Evil Midnight Bomber (What Bombs At Midnight)
I use Xing MPEG Encoder. It is quite good and can compress sound too. I
don't know if it's free as it came with my video card. Their site is
probably www.xing.com, but don't quote me on this.
Peter

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Brian E Clough wrote:
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> Is everyone using Cmpeg to generate animations from individual frames?
> 
> Are there any Win32 programs that will do this job better?

I have been happy with the compression quality offered by CMPEG. I just
wish there was a way to embed sound, though.

Check out the file "awea.mpg" in my anonymous ftp directory listed in my
signature file for an example.
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> I use Xing MPEG Encoder. It is quite good and can compress sound too. I don't know
if it's free as it came with my video card. Their site is probably www.xing.com, but
don't quote me on this.
> 
> Peter

I know this is old but I gotta throw this in anyway.
According to the cmpeg documentation, Xing mpeg players can only
read mpegs with nothing but i frames (full frames).  With this, I
would assume that their encoder only encodes i frames.  Since real
mpegs create frames by describing what's changed from other frames
while only occassionally using an i frame, this of course means
that if the Xing encoder only does i frames, it's mpegs will be
larger and less efficient than they could be if encoded using
another program.

I've heard that Smacker can be used to make mpegs (with i, p, and b
frames) with sound, but I could be wrong.  Blizzard's Starcraft
has some text at the bottom of the title screen noting something
about Smacker Video Technology, and the cutscenes in Starcraft are
fairly impressive.

Don't quote me on any of this.  I'm sure I've got one or two
things wrong, and someone who knows this stuff inside and out
will lift me a meter off the ground, smack me a few times, and
tell me what's what.

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Erik schrieb:
According to the cmpeg documentation, Xing mpeg players can only

> read mpegs with nothing but i frames (full frames).  With this, I...

This seems to relate to an old version of the Xing MPEG player. The one I have gotis
O.K., even does stereo sound which the Active Movie does not.
The URL for Xing is http://www.xingtech.com/
A trial version of the encoder can be downloaded from:
http://support.xingtech.com/mpegencoder_download.html
Greetings
    Karl-Heinz

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