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I spent a few hours trying to convert a pile of PNGs into something
that would play on my MPEG player, and I wasn't able to make any of
the tools work.  convert was able to make an MPEG video stream, but I
couldn't get from there to anything that would play in winamp or
Windows Media Player.

Is there a document out there that says "run your povray command with
the following options, take those images and run the following
commands, and tada, you've got an MPEG file which will play anywhere"?

Jack.
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jmt at twilley dot org
http colon slash slash www dot twilley dot org slash tilde jmt slash
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In article <86w### [at] duchesstwilleyorg>, jmt+use### [at] twilleyorg 
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> I spent a few hours trying to convert a pile of PNGs into something
> that would play on my MPEG player, and I wasn't able to make any of
> the tools work.  convert was able to make an MPEG video stream, but I
> couldn't get from there to anything that would play in winamp or
> Windows Media Player.
> 
> Is there a document out there that says "run your povray command with
> the following options, take those images and run the following
> commands, and tada, you've got an MPEG file which will play anywhere"?
> 
Hmm. http://ftp.imp.org/tech/vfpng.zip

This file once installed properly with TMPGEnc works nicely. Oops! That 
link is dead, try:

http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.utilities/thread/%3C3a82f26c@news.
povray.org%3E/

Maybe someone should drop a copy of this to the TMPGEnc people themselves 
to host, since they are a lot less likely to vanish off the face of the 
earth or at the very least are certainly a more likely place to look for 
the file. :(

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void main () {

    call functional_code()
  else
    call crash_windows();
}

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>>>>> "Patrick" == Patrick Elliott <sha### [at] hotmailcom> writes:

Jack> Is there a document out there that says "run your povray command
Jack> with the following options, take those images and run the
Jack> following commands, and tada, you've got an MPEG file which will
Jack> play anywhere"?

[... excellent TMPGEnc plugin info elided ...]

Patrick> Maybe someone should drop a copy of this to the TMPGEnc
Patrick> people themselves to host, since they are a lot less likely
Patrick> to vanish off the face of the earth or at the very least are
Patrick> certainly a more likely place to look for the file. :(

Mmm.  I was hoping for a more OS-agnostic method, but if Windows is
what I have to use right now, I'll survive.

Jack.
(porting makempeg.tcsh to sh in hopes it'll work)
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jmt at twilley dot org
http colon slash slash www dot twilley dot org slash tilde jmt slash
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>>>>> "Jack" == Jack Twilley <jmt+use### [at] twilleyorg> writes:

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Jack> Mmm.  I was hoping for a more OS-agnostic method, but if Windows
Jack> is what I have to use right now, I'll survive.

Jack> Jack.
Jack> (porting makempeg.tcsh to sh in hopes it'll work)

And it does!

http://www.twilley.org/~jmt/tmp/makempeg.sh.gz

If there's a general repository for stuff like this, please feel free
to include it.  The original had no explicit license, so neither does
mine. 

Jack.
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jmt at twilley dot org
http colon slash slash www dot twilley dot org slash tilde jmt slash
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Jack Twilley wrote:

> I spent a few hours trying to convert a pile of PNGs into something
> that would play on my MPEG player, and I wasn't able to make any of
> the tools work.  convert was able to make an MPEG video stream, but I
> couldn't get from there to anything that would play in winamp or
> Windows Media Player.
> 
I'm using mencoder from the mplayer package successfully for that. 
See: www.mplayerhq.hu

It can even play the PNG files as video without prior conversion using 
  mplayer mf://"frame*.png"

Wolfgang

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