On Sunday, April 10, 2011 8:46:51 AM UTC-7, John H Palmieri wrote: > > > > On Sunday, April 10, 2011 6:36:08 AM UTC-7, Marshall Hampton wrote: >> >> >> Finally, what I do currently is to use ffmpeg. Because of patent and >> license issues I think this cannot be part of the standard Sage, but >> it does a great job and is very flexible. For larger movies this is >> crucial, since I don't think much compression is possible with GIFs. >> > > Hi Marshall, > > Even if we can't distribute ffmpeg, we could include code that calls it > (animate(..., animator='ffmpeg')). That code could check to see if ffmpeg > is installed, and then use it or raise an error. How hard would it be to > write a patch? (I've never used ffmpeg.) >
Well, I downloaded ffmpeg and came up with the following patch: <http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/11170> It's ready for review. -- John -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org