Newsgroups: comp.graphics.rendering.raytracing,comp.parallel.pvm From: thomas@trust.aztec-design.co.uk (Thomas Molesworth) Reply-To: thomas@bass.almac.co.uk Subject: Re: PVM PoV-Ray speed Organization: Aztec Design Linux Date: 25 Jul 1997 20:11:58 GMT Message-ID: On 24 Jul 1997 17:09:28 -0700, Mary Conner wrote: >In article , >Ben R. Boule wrote: >>The only thing that I've been able to think of so far is whirlgif. You >>can convert your TGA/PNG/JPG files to GIF with XV, and then use whirlgif >>to put them together into an animated gif. Not that this is a very >>satisfactory result. I'd love to see something that could make >>mpegs/fli, etc... > >Um, how about ppm2fli? I use that together with tgatoppm in order to >animate povray output. Dave's Targa Animator (for dos/win machines) >will produce fli's (if I remember correctly) straight from targa >output. I have source for programs that can generate FLIs - that's the easy part. However, I'd really like to make MPEG/AVI/ files, so I can sync a sound file to the animation. I can recommend DTA for producing flis (although AFAIK it isn't available for Linux, which is my OS of choice). >Unfortunately, as I haven't gotten into producing animations with sound >yet, I have not gone looking for something that will bring a sound >track in to produce a .avi file. That's really what I'm looking for... by the way, what's the best format to use out of MPEG/AVI/QT/etc in terms of efficiency, speed+resources required for playback, resolution (both graphics+sound), portability, etc? Thanks for the help anyway. -- Thomas Molesworth (thomas@bass.almac.co.uk)