On Sep 2, 10:40 pm, mhampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks very much for this response. ffmpeg looks very useful to me, I > am checking it out right now. It is unclear to me what the overlap is > with mplayer/mencoder. It seems that ffmpeg is somewhat leaner and > more portable, so I am thinking of using it as the encoder for your > first suggestion (create a sequence of jpegs with the tachyon > raytracer, then convert to mp4). ffmpeg seems quite fast to me > compared to using imagemagick with GIFs.
You may be able to get some useful ideas from a video io package someone wrote for matlab that uses ffmpeg: http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/loadFile.do?objectId=15224 I haven't poked around in the internals of this at all myself, so I have no idea whether any of it is adaptable. Regards, JM --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---