OK, so it might be worthwhile to check out some more files like this. Rolf,
can you send me some example M-JPEG files that work for you. I'm willing to
give it one more shot.
Bob
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Rolf Huehne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> Robert Hanson wrote:
> > [switching to jmol-developers list]
> > Also, I spent the weekend writing an AVI video creator. I learned a lot,
> > mostly how difficult it is to create real video animations. Alas, I can
> > write AVI files, but the JPG files required for those are a special type
> > that the JpgEncoder in Jmol doesn't write (at least by default). I'd try
> to
> > fix that, but then I learned that Quicktime doesn't read AVI files of
> this
> > sort, and there are other issues as well. Mostly I was just trying
> another
> > angle. I've left the code in there commented out in case we ever revive
> that
> > idea. I think I'll give up on the JPG --> MJPEG idea. It has no support
> in
> > the video community, and apparently it was created ad hoc with no real
> > specifications. Just a royal pain.
> >
> MJPEG seems to be used very commonly by digital cameras. I didn't
> observe any problems yet with displaying MJPEG videos produced by my
> camera with several viewers including Windows media player, but I didn't
> try Quicktime yet.
>
>
> > Probably the only dependable way to do this is as an animated GIF. But
> then
> > I have to figure out how to approximate the colors of Jmol within a
> > 256-color set. No simple solution that I see for that. (Rolf, I haven't
> > looked into http://www.imagemagick.org yet.)
> >
> > Question: Would people be interested in an animate GIF producer from
> spin,
> > vibration, navigation, script, or (what else?) operations?
> >
> I might be interested because we are currently thinking about exporting
> animated views from Jmol. (But it's just brainstorming to develop new
> ideas for the JenaLib.)
>
> Regards,
> Rolf
>
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