Hi,
This is a problem that I suspect is created by Media Player, but I don't
know for sure. Some of the animations I make have to loop flawlessly in
order to achieve the proper effect. My latest one is falling rain.
Everything look OK, except that it hesitates every time it loops, which
destroys the desired illusion of continuously falling rain. It appears that
the last frame holds for an extra amount of time before it goes back to the
first frame. I have tried editing out the last frame, but that doesn't help;
it just hesitates on the new last frame. Any Ideas out there?
Thank you,
Steve Shelby

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"Steve Shelby" <ssh### [at] rexnetnet> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> This is a problem that I suspect is created by Media Player, but I don't
> know for sure. Some of the animations I make have to loop flawlessly in
> order to achieve the proper effect. My latest one is falling rain.
> Everything look OK, except that it hesitates every time it loops, which
> destroys the desired illusion of continuously falling rain. It appears
that
> the last frame holds for an extra amount of time before it goes back to
the
> first frame. I have tried editing out the last frame, but that doesn't
help;
> it just hesitates on the new last frame. Any Ideas out there?
> Thank you,
> Steve Shelby
>
>

I've had this too, I think it's windows media player that's at fault, try
this instead:
http://www.gromada.com/Moyager.html

jim

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James Taylor wrote:
>"Steve Shelby" <ssh### [at] rexnetnet> wrote in message
>news:3d244b8a$1[at]news.povray.org...
>> Hi,
>> This is a problem that I suspect is created by Media Player, but I don't
>> know for sure

[snip]

Yup, it's definitely Media Player.  I've made a fair few looping intro
sequences for conferences over the last few years - I got frustrated with
this Media Player problem very quickly.

I now run use Linux and Mplayer to run my looping sequences.

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Maybe you could delete your last frame or two. It wouldn't be perfect, but
at least it would end up flowing right, and your mind could probably fill
in the missing frames if it had to.

Or, I could be completely wrong. I don't know.

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