Hi
I've been looking around for a simple, free PNG to AVI (xvid) converter for
Windows for a long time, without much luck. But just now I stumbled upon
MonkeyJam - http://www.giantscreamingrobotmonkeys.com/monkeyjam/index.html
It is a utility designed for stop motion animation, but it works perfectly
for POV-Ray use. Just change "Hold" to 1 when you import your frames.
Without trying it more than a couple of times I belive it inputs any image
format (PNG, BMP, JPG, TIF etc), as well as sound, and outputs to any AVI codec
you have installed (DIVX, XVID, WMV etc).
I didn't find it in the links collection, and it only gave one hit in the
newsgroups, which tells me a lot of people might not know of this excellent
program.
Just a small notice ;)

-Peter

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> I've been looking around for a simple, free PNG to AVI (xvid) converter 
> for
> Windows for a long time, without much luck.

Just another small recommendation I thought I'd share, I use AVIsynth to 
create an uncompressed AVI stream from PNGs.

For example, just make an avisynth script called PNG.avs (or whatever) that 
contains:

video = ImageSource("frame%03d.png", start=1, end=600, fps=25,pixel_type = 
"rgb24")
return video

Then, you can just use some normal encoder (most accept .avs avisynth files 
as input) to create your compressed video.  I use Xvid4PSP because it can 
create the 1080p h264 files that play on the PS3.  Works a treat and allows 
a lot of flexibility.

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