Just thought I'd ask before making a fool of myself.

What are the general guidelines for posting in this group? File size
restrictions? Formats?

I've made a nifty-keen (well, pretty lame, really, but I like it)
animation of an Animal 57 (as you may know from p.b.i) pulsing from
within its tank. I'd like to show it, but not be shot down in a trail of
smoke.

:)

Simon
http://home.istar.ca/~sdevet


- Hrm... maybe Torus Mutt

will finally be able to get a

public showing, now.

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Simon de Vet <sde### [at] istarca> wrote in message news:372667BC.566DD28B@istar.ca...
> Just thought I'd ask before making a fool of myself.
>
> What are the general guidelines for posting in this group? File size
> restrictions? Formats?
>
> I've made a nifty-keen (well, pretty lame, really, but I like it)
> animation of an Animal 57 (as you may know from p.b.i) pulsing from
> within its tank. I'd like to show it, but not be shot down in a trail of
> smoke.
>

Hi Simon,

There's a 1Mb file limit after encoding. I think mpeg's are most widely viewable from
platform to platform, but I often prefer to post avi's as I can often get better
quality.
As for making a fool of yourself...don't let that worry you. I don't let it stop me
:-) Go
ahead and post it....I'd like to see it.

all the best,

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Andy
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Andrew Cocker wrote:
> 
> Simon de Vet <sde### [at] istarca> wrote in message news:372667BC.566DD28B@istar.ca...
> > Just thought I'd ask before making a fool of myself.
> >
> > What are the general guidelines for posting in this group? File size
> > restrictions? Formats?
> >
> > I've made a nifty-keen (well, pretty lame, really, but I like it)
> > animation of an Animal 57 (as you may know from p.b.i) pulsing from
> > within its tank. I'd like to show it, but not be shot down in a trail of
> > smoke.
> >
> 
> Hi Simon,
> 
> There's a 1Mb file limit after encoding. I think mpeg's are most widely viewable
from
> platform to platform, but I often prefer to post avi's as I can often get better
quality.
> As for making a fool of yourself...don't let that worry you. I don't let it stop me
:-) Go
> ahead and post it....I'd like to see it.
> 
> all the best,
> 
> --
> ----------------------
> Andy

I second the avi comment. I get too many unknown mpeg warning messages
from the different use of mpeg compression and mpeg type from the anims
posted here. This means I have prety much given up even looking at
peoples work when they post in mpeg format.

-- 
Ken Tyler

mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net

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Ken wrote:
> 
> I second the avi comment. I get too many unknown mpeg warning messages
> from the different use of mpeg compression and mpeg type from the anims
> posted here. This means I have prety much given up even looking at
> peoples work when they post in mpeg format.
> 
> --
> Ken Tyler
> 

For me it's more the other way 'round. I had only very few problems with
mpeg but lots with AVI. I guess that's a problem between the UN*X and M$
world.

Marc
-- 
Marc Schimmler

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On Wed, 28 Apr 1999 08:34:15 +0200, Marc Schimmler
<sch### [at] icauni-stuttgartde> wrote:

>Ken wrote:
>> 
>> I second the avi comment. I get too many unknown mpeg warning messages
>> from the different use of mpeg compression and mpeg type from the anims
>> posted here. This means I have prety much given up even looking at
>> peoples work when they post in mpeg format.
>> 
>
>For me it's more the other way 'round. I had only very few problems with
>mpeg but lots with AVI. I guess that's a problem between the UN*X and M$
>world.

I agree.  I am currently damned to the Winsux world, but I frequently
have problems viewing avi animations.  This is often but not always an
"unsupported codec" problem on my ancient system.  On the other hand,
I use Vmpeg (free, available via mpeg.org) to view mpeg videos and I
have viewed literally every irtc-anim video without difficulty in
spite of my limited hardware and the only ones that have given me
problems on the newsgroup are the occasional Mac-generated mpeg that
has not been "flattened" (had the resource fork removed).  Even then,
by manually removing it I can usually view them.

Jerry Anning
clem "at" dhol "dot" com

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Jerry Anning wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 28 Apr 1999 08:34:15 +0200, Marc Schimmler
> <sch### [at] icauni-stuttgartde> wrote:
> 
> >Ken wrote:
> >>
> >> I second the avi comment. I get too many unknown mpeg warning messages
> >> from the different use of mpeg compression and mpeg type from the anims
> >> posted here. This means I have prety much given up even looking at
> >> peoples work when they post in mpeg format.
> >>
> >
> >For me it's more the other way 'round. I had only very few problems with
> >mpeg but lots with AVI. I guess that's a problem between the UN*X and M$
> >world.
> 
> I agree.  I am currently damned to the Winsux world, but I frequently
> have problems viewing avi animations.  This is often but not always an
> "unsupported codec" problem on my ancient system.  On the other hand,
> I use Vmpeg (free, available via mpeg.org) to view mpeg videos and I
> have viewed literally every irtc-anim video without difficulty in
> spite of my limited hardware and the only ones that have given me
> problems on the newsgroup are the occasional Mac-generated mpeg that
> has not been "flattened" (had the resource fork removed).  Even then,
> by manually removing it I can usually view them.
> 
> Jerry Anning
> clem "at" dhol "dot" com

Funny how getting an up to date codec is such a problem while "flattening" a
Mac-generated MPEG is not (I never tried). 
I think the more important difference is in compression (MPEG) or quality (AVI).

Regards,

Remco

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