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From: Rafal 'Raf256' Maj
Subject: Best format for animation - MNG?
Date: 20 Nov 2004 09:18:15
Message: <Xns95A79BFCAE262raf256com@203.29.75.35>

http://www.libpng.org/pub/mng/

This is an animated PNG. I'm reading about this format and it looks 
interesting. Someone have any experience with it? 

It seemes to have greate avantages:

1. lossless but quite strong movie compresion
2. can be putted on a WWW page same as an .gif in <img> (but only for 
browsers supporting it... I think mozilla/firefox does it).

Any suggestions? Best program to convert set of .png to .mga for 
win32/linux?


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From: ingo
Subject: Re: Best format for animation - MNG?
Date: 20 Nov 2004 10:09:07
Message: <Xns95A7A44ED4003seed7@news.povray.org>

in news:Xns95A79BFCAE262raf256com@203.29.75.35 Rafal 'Raf256' Maj wrote:

> Any suggestions? Best program to convert set of .png to .mga for 
> win32/linux?
> 
> 

Imagemagick

Ingo

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From: Daniel Hulme
Subject: Re: Best format for animation - MNG?
Date: 20 Nov 2004 10:33:50
Message: <20041120153350.38a27ecb@dh286.pem.cam.ac.uk>

> Any suggestions? Best program to convert set of .png to .mga for 
> win32/linux?

IIRC Paint Shop Pro's Animation Shop has used mng as its preferred
format since the first version, so probably works quite well for what
you want.

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From: wald
Subject: Re: Best format for animation - MNG?
Date: 22 Nov 2004 04:12:54
Message: <Xns95A967EC07CD3arnoutstandaertnospa@203.29.75.35>

"Rafal 'Raf256' Maj" <spa### [at] raf256com> wrote:

> 
> http://www.libpng.org/pub/mng/
> 
> This is an animated PNG. I'm reading about this format and it
> looks interesting. Someone have any experience with it? 
> 
> It seemes to have greate avantages:
> 
> 1. lossless but quite strong movie compresion
> 2. can be putted on a WWW page same as an .gif in <img> (but
> only for browsers supporting it... I think mozilla/firefox does
> it). 

IIRC, there's no MNG support in Mozilla/Firefox. They once had it, 
but removed later on for god-knows-what reason. You might want to 
look over here for more information:

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=115619&highlight=mng

Regards,
Wald

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From: Greg M Johnson
Subject: Re: Best format for animation - MNG?
Date: 22 Nov 2004 22:20:01
Message: <41a2ac61$1@news.povray.org>

Two new vocabulary words:

bugspam
cruft

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From: Mike Raiford
Subject: Re: Best format for animation - MNG?
Date: 23 Nov 2004 07:51:58
Message: <41a3326e@news.povray.org>

Greg M. Johnson wrote:

> bugspam
> cruft 

WTF?

-- 
~Mike

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From: Greg M Johnson
Subject: Re: Best format for animation - MNG?
Date: 23 Nov 2004 18:02:35
Message: <41a3c18b$1@news.povray.org>

In one of those articles of the main MNG page, where the Mozilla developers 
announced they might not need to support MNG.

"Mike Raiford" <mra### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message 
news:41a3326e@news.povray.org...
> Greg M. Johnson wrote:
>
>> bugspam
>> cruft
>
> WTF?
>
> -- 
> ~Mike

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From: Mike C
Subject: Re: Best format for animation - MNG?
Date: 16 Aug 2005 14:00:00
Message: <web.430228b4cd65a25d44365ed70@news.povray.org>

Mike Raiford <mra### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> Greg M. Johnson wrote:
>
> > bugspam
> > cruft
>
> WTF?

Too many people spammed the bug lists for MNG support. (bugspam)
There is too much junk in Mozilla Firefox (cruft) that isn't even related to
MNG.  Except for that cleaning it has a higher priority...

Also note that MNG is not a supported IETF file format at the date of a link
from an above post...

> --
> ~Mike

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