I've looked around on the various links pages and d/l'd
lots of stuff, but can't find simple batch conversion
tools for images or animation tools that just make an
AVI or MPG out of common file types.

I've rendered two animations, both taking 5 days (at the
same time), but now can't really do anything with the frames
because I can't find the tools.  

I've d/l'd Mkavi, won't compile and I'm not knowledgeable
enough to get it to work.  


Any help with links to tools that work would be gratefully
received.

PS: Spider's d/l'd all the tools and deleted them so that
no one else can play :-)  

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I use PSP or IrfanView to batch convert images, MS VidEdit for Avi encoding and
CMpeg for Mpeg encoding.  The only commercial program I have for animations is
VideoWave II, but it's very slow in putting the images together.  So those 4
programs are really all I ever need and I only paid about 50$ for Paint Shop
Pro.  It can be limiting and not great output, I just don't need anything
better, for now anyway.
PSP is at www.jasc.com
IrfanView is at http://stud1.tuwien.ac.at/~e9227474/
MS VidEdit is at
http://www.sumrallworks.com/freebies/buttonhole/multimedia/avi/editor.htm
CMpeg is at ftp://ftp.crs4.it/mpeg/programs/cmpeg10.zip
The cmpeg Windows GUI front-end by Alexander Stols (Sander) is at
http://stols.net/
and there's also a tga to agif at http://members.xoom.com/amcfarlane/

You'd be well to get IrfanView and Cmpeg (and it's frontend) at the very least,
and VidEdit to put together Avi.

Bob

"Steve" <sjl### [at] zero-ppslocaldomain> wrote in message
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|
| I've looked around on the various links pages and d/l'd
| lots of stuff, but can't find simple batch conversion
| tools for images or animation tools that just make an
| AVI or MPG out of common file types.
|
| I've rendered two animations, both taking 5 days (at the
| same time), but now can't really do anything with the frames
| because I can't find the tools.
|
| I've d/l'd Mkavi, won't compile and I'm not knowledgeable
| enough to get it to work.
|
|
| Any help with links to tools that work would be gratefully
| received.
|
| PS: Spider's d/l'd all the tools and deleted them so that
| no one else can play :-)
|
| --
| Cheers
| Steve              email mailto:sjl### [at] ndirectcouk
|
| %HAV-A-NICEDAY Error not enough coffee  0 pps.
|
| web http://www.ndirect.co.uk/~sjlen/
|
| or  http://start.at/zero-pps
|
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On Sun, 30 Jan 2000 00:22:09 -0600, Bob Hughes 
<omn### [at] hotmailcom?subject=PoV-News:> wrote:
>I use PSP or IrfanView to batch convert images, MS VidEdit for Avi encoding and
>CMpeg for Mpeg encoding.  The only commercial program I have for animations is
>VideoWave II, but it's very slow in putting the images together.  So those 4
>programs are really all I ever need and I only paid about 50$ for Paint Shop
>Pro.  It can be limiting and not great output, I just don't need anything
>better, for now anyway.
>PSP is at www.jasc.com
>IrfanView is at http://stud1.tuwien.ac.at/~e9227474/
>MS VidEdit is at
>http://www.sumrallworks.com/freebies/buttonhole/multimedia/avi/editor.htm
>CMpeg is at ftp://ftp.crs4.it/mpeg/programs/cmpeg10.zip
>The cmpeg Windows GUI front-end by Alexander Stols (Sander) is at
>http://stols.net/
>and there's also a tga to agif at http://members.xoom.com/amcfarlane/
>
>You'd be well to get IrfanView and Cmpeg (and it's frontend) at the very least,
>and VidEdit to put together Avi.

Great list there Bob, thanks for responding so quickly, but I forgot to mention
in my post that I'm using Linux.  

I had the majority of those tools that you mention when I was using Win95,
I also used FMP, (I think they started charging for it the day after I
d/l'd it).  IrFanView is a priceless tool, shame there's nothing like that
for Unix.


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Steve wrote:

> On Sun, 30 Jan 2000 00:22:09 -0600, Bob Hughes
> <omn### [at] hotmailcom?subject=PoV-News:> wrote:
> >I use PSP or IrfanView to batch convert images, MS VidEdit for Avi encoding and
> >CMpeg for Mpeg encoding.  The only commercial program I have for animations is
> >VideoWave II, but it's very slow in putting the images together.  So those 4
> >programs are really all I ever need and I only paid about 50$ for Paint Shop
> >Pro.  It can be limiting and not great output, I just don't need anything
> >better, for now anyway.
> >PSP is at www.jasc.com
> >IrfanView is at http://stud1.tuwien.ac.at/~e9227474/
> >MS VidEdit is at
> >http://www.sumrallworks.com/freebies/buttonhole/multimedia/avi/editor.htm
> >CMpeg is at ftp://ftp.crs4.it/mpeg/programs/cmpeg10.zip
> >The cmpeg Windows GUI front-end by Alexander Stols (Sander) is at
> >http://stols.net/
> >and there's also a tga to agif at http://members.xoom.com/amcfarlane/
> >
> >You'd be well to get IrfanView and Cmpeg (and it's frontend) at the very least,
> >and VidEdit to put together Avi.
>
> Great list there Bob, thanks for responding so quickly, but I forgot to mention
> in my post that I'm using Linux.
>
> I had the majority of those tools that you mention when I was using Win95,
> I also used FMP, (I think they started charging for it the day after I
> d/l'd it).  IrFanView is a priceless tool, shame there's nothing like that
> for Unix.

Well, I'm wondering what in IrFanView you like so much. There are many tools for
Unix, and most are quite powerful. Have you looked over all these?


Image Magick (does conversions )
http://www.wizards.dupont.com/cristy/ImageMagick.html
and it's list of formats is at:
http://www.wizards.dupont.com/cristy/www/formats.html

also "ImageMagick is known to compile and run on virtually any Unix. system and
Linux. It also runs under Windows NT, Windows 95, Macintosh, VMS, and OS2."

I also know that it's convert function is often used in scripts to create mpg's.


The Gimp (better than PSP or Photoshop. For some things. and free)
http://www.gimp.org/



Electric Eyes (ee)
http://www.gnome.org/applist/view.phtml?name=Electric%20Eyes


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"Jon A. Cruz" wrote:

> also "ImageMagick is known to compile and run on virtually any Unix. system and
> Linux. It also runs under Windows NT, Windows 95, Macintosh, VMS, and OS2."

ImageMagic just announced a new version today as well. Saw the announcement
in one of the graphics NG's.

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For Linux, the closest thing to IrFanView is Xnview
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pierre.g
it does batch conversions, and more.

To make mpegs, get the Berkeley encoder at ftp://mm-ftp.cs.berkeley.edu
look in /pub/mpeg/? for mpeg_encode-1.5b-patched-src.tar.gz  You have to
compile it yourself.  (I've had no problems compiling it with the RedHat
distribution.)

A great Linux mpeg viewer is at
ftp://ftp.mpegtv.com/pub/mpeg/mpegtv/player/x86-unknown-linux-glibc/package
s/RPMS/
mtv-1.1.0.3-1.i386.rpm -- it is also included on caldera's openlinux 2.3
CD.

I hope this helps.

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"Steve" <sjl### [at] zero-ppslocaldomain> wrote in message
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| I forgot to mention in my post that I'm using Linux.

Very sorry, I wasn't seeing the full subject line of your post before.  I knew
something didn't seem right about that.  My mistake, no fault of yours.

Bob

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Thanks to everyone who responded, I've got Xnview now, and will
check out image magic.

Got mpeg_encode last night, but have had problems compiling, I'll
have another go later today, it's something I'm doing wrong in
the Makefile I think.

Looking at the man page for ctags (and etags), there doesn't 
appear to be a -t option, so I've taken that option out and it's 
done away with some of the errors.  I also get:

In file included from headers/all.h:85,
                 from mfwddct.c:18:
headers/general.h:68: conflicting types for `fwrite'
/usr/include/stdio.h:446: previous declaration of `fwrite'
headers/general.h:69: conflicting types for `fread'
/usr/include/stdio.h:443: previous declaration of `fread'
headers/general.h:74: conflicting types for `bzero'
/usr/include/string.h:228: previous declaration of `bzero'
headers/general.h:75: conflicting types for `bcopy'
/usr/include/string.h:225: previous declaration of `bcopy'
headers/general.h:77: conflicting types for `time'
/usr/include/time.h:122: previous declaration of `time'
headers/general.h:78: conflicting types for `perror'
/usr/include/stdio.h:547: previous declaration of `perror'
make: *** [mfwddct.o] Error 1

Maybe I should be including the -DLONG32 (or whatever it is) 
option in my CFLAGS line. 

Any suggestions?
 
Mkavi won't compile, it appears (from the docs) to have been
prepared with BSD in mind rather than linux, I get an error
to do with something in the Makefile, and am totally baffled
by it. 

Thanks everyone for your help.
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Steve wrote:
> 
> Thanks to everyone who responded, I've got Xnview now, and will
> check out image magic.
> 
> Got mpeg_encode last night, but have had problems compiling, I'll
> have another go later today, it's something I'm doing wrong in
> the Makefile I think.

Check these out when you get the time -

http://heroine.linuxbox.com/bcast2000.html

http://heroine.linuxbox.com/toys.html

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