Hi Folks,

here is my first try to get familiar with animated media and density.
Hope i'll get some comments on it. (sniff)  Movie is a XviD, because i
simply have no MPEG encoding software and XviD offers better compression
rate with lower quality loss than encoding an MPEG. What about of deleting
the file restriction to only MPEG-1 ? Stoneage is over ! :)) Not meant bad,
just a fact.

Bye, Shu.

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Shurakai wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> here is my first try to get familiar with animated media and density.
> Hope i'll get some comments on it. (sniff)  Movie is a XviD, because i
> simply have no MPEG encoding software and XviD offers better compression
> rate with lower quality loss than encoding an MPEG. What about of deleting
> the file restriction to only MPEG-1 ? Stoneage is over ! :)) Not meant bad,
> just a fact.
> 
> Bye, Shu.

Very nice looking. How are you modifying the density pattern to produce 
this?

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Thomas Lake <smi### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> Very nice looking. How are you modifying the density pattern to produce
> this?

Hi Thomas,
Thanks for Your comment.
The density has been created by using the crackle pattern, like shown by
Chriss Huff and his density sphere. I think the file is contained in the
POV-Ray installation. Then You only need to add some turbulence and some
rotation. Thats it. I only added one media statement, using 4 or more will
look much better, but will increase the rendering time a lot. Thats not
usefull for an animation anymore.

Shu.

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> Movie is a XviD, because i
> simply have no MPEG encoding software and XviD offers better compression
> rate with lower quality loss than encoding an MPEG. What about of deleting
> the file restriction to only MPEG-1 ? Stoneage is over ! :)) Not meant
bad,
> just a fact.

It plays for me, but it's all jittered... the animation isn't smooth. When I
try to play it a second time without closing Windows Media Player, it
doesn't play at all.

You should consider encoding in a simpler format like MPEG (try tmpgenc)
since that will work for more people and increase your chances of getting
comments. =)

 - Slime
 [ http://www.slimeland.com/ ]

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> It plays for me, but it's all jittered... the animation isn't smooth. When I
> try to play it a second time without closing Windows Media Player, it
> doesn't play at all.
>
> You should consider encoding in a simpler format like MPEG (try tmpgenc)
> since that will work for more people and increase your chances of getting
> comments. =)
>

Hmmm, strange. I encountered this bug with Windows Media Player too when i
used older Xvid codecs. The reason might be that You need the latest XviD
codec installed. Or simply use the Video LAN client, a small video player
which playes all kind of movies without any problems. It can be found here
:

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

I think TMPGEnc isn't freeware. I can only use it for 14 days than i need to
register. Not really usefull for me. I'm restricted to use freeware like
VirtualDUB, because i want to post my animations on my homepage later. I'll
look if i can find some free encoding software, because You are right,
MPEG-1 is the most common format for videos.

Shu.

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Shurakai wrote:

> I think TMPGEnc isn't freeware. I can only use it for 14 days than i need to
> register. Not really usefull for me. I'm restricted to use freeware like
> VirtualDUB, because i want to post my animations on my homepage later. I'll
> look if i can find some free encoding software, because You are right,
> MPEG-1 is the most common format for videos.

Free version of TMPGEnc can be used only for personal use or
noncommercial use such as presentation inside a company.

The MPEG-2 encoding capabilities expire after a trial-period, but MPEG-1 
encoding is always functional.

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