I have traversed several pages of links, but not once have I managed to find
a free video encoder that would run on os X.1

All help is appreciated.

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In article <web.3edcef594ea7f6a5fa0d47600@news.povray.org> , "neb" 
<neb### [at] qismorg> wrote:

> I have traversed several pages of links, but not once have I managed to find
> a free video encoder that would run on os X.1

QuickTime?  But of course it depends on in what format you have your data
and which format you want to encode it to.  Without this information it is
hard to help you...

    Thorsten

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>QuickTime?  But of course it depends on in what format you have your data
>and which format you want to encode it to.  Without this information it is
>hard to help you...


I simply want to turn the numbered picture outputs standard to povray into
some browser-friendly video encoding ie foobar0001.pic etc.. into MPEG,
most likely. I dont have quicktime pro, which is needed to encode video. I
might as well spend the 30 or whatever to get it, but if there is a more
immediate solution, I would appreciate it.

I was experimenting with Flash MX, but it does not natively support any of
the .pic .tga that povray outputs, so I would ahve to convert them frame by
frame to .jpg, then import/export to MPG via Flash. That sucks, though./

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In article <web.3eddfa0a8c9652abd47c4900@news.povray.org> , "neb" 
<neb### [at] qismorg> wrote:

> I dont have quicktime pro, which is needed to encode video.

No, it isn't at all.  You only need QuickTime Pro to encode movies if you
want to use the video encoding feature of the QuickTime Player.  The codecs
are complete in the regular version of QuickTime and you can use them with
any other application, but not QuickTime player.

For changing movies, mostly automatically, including MPEG encoding and
decoding, I would recommend MediaPipe.  the user interface isn't really
great, but it gives you access to all you need.
<http://mediapipe.sourceforge.net/>

For turning image sequences into movies, you can either use the POV-Ray Mac
built-in movies export (which gives you access to all QuickTime codecs) or
you use Eduard's old utility, which works just as fine:
<http://www.geocities.com/drakonis16/espsw/moover-en.html>



   Thorsten

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e-mail: tho### [at] trfde

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Thanks much. I'll test these all out tonight.

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