All Macs will create/play .mov files and .mp4 formats. They'll also create movies using the H.264 codec for playback on browsers and mobile devices. In addition Quicktime on a Mac can write .avi files as well as .wmv files.
Quicktime will easily take a directory of sequential image files and combine them as frames of a movie and you can specify the frames per second to control the movie's playing time. Unfortunately the whole idea of a single platform-independent video format has not yet been realized. There is no guarantee that any given MSPC machine will have the required software to support anything other than the most basic MS format and Macs without a codec for .wmv/.avi files may not be able to display them. You do need to rely to some extent on the user getting the needed plugins. This was supposed to get sorted out for HTML5 but once again politics/animosity has intervened to frustrate the agreed upon solution. At the moment playback is browser-specific rather than platform-specific. The last I heard H.264 was supported in Safari and IE9. But if you want to support other browsers you my need to have a server-side switch to provide the format appropriate to it. Rich On Jan 2, 2012, at 9:26 PM, Eric Martz wrote: > If someone has experience generating true movies from Jmol (movies > that will play in a web browser, or at least will play on both > Windows and Macs without special software) I would appreciate advice. > > I think the idea is to save a series of jpg files from a Jmol script. > The jpg files are the frames of a movie. One then assembles the jpg > files into some sort of movie (mpg?) file. How? What software is > easiest for the assembly, to control the speed of the movie, etc.? > > I have experience using RasMol scripts to save a series of gif files, > and assembling those into a multi-gif "movie" that plays in all web > browsers. As far as I can see, Jmol cannot write gif files. > > I see that Jmol's "write image" command can save several variations > on png image format and ppm format. I don't know if any of those are > advantageous for assembling a movie. > > Thanks, -Eric > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Write once. Port to many. > Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create > new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the > Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev > _______________________________________________ > Jmol-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
