Hi Ibrahim, I have used pretty much the same options for mencoder as you.
mencoder "mf://myfile*.*[0-9].png" -mf fps=18 -o mymovie.mpg -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=msmpeg4v2:vbitrate=9000 (and yes, 18fps is on the slow side, but in my opinion sufficient) Several people have played these movies in their powerpoints successfully, but I did have some trouble in the beginning changing between WinXP to win2000, but I recall using version 2 of msmpeg sorted that out. But perhaps more crucially I also had problems with the same movie file depending on the extension it had (I think I had .avi intially and that failed) - this might have to do with default application for that file type. I am guessing you should have windows mediaplayer as default for these movie to work well in powerpoint - that's what I have and have not dared to fiddle with it now that everything works Ok. cheers, Marko On Fri, 25 May 2007, Ibrahim M. Moustafa wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to make a movie for a powerpoint presentation but going through > some problems. > > I can make the frames in Pymol, so I have the series of .png files; no > problem in that. The problem is to get a movie (.avi) so it can be inserted > into the powerpoint. > > Googling showed a nice thread in ccp4bb and it is really helpful; but still > can't make what I want exactly. > > I can make a movie.mov which can be played by Quicktime or realplayer; > however, I don't like the way of playing the movie using other program during > the presentation! I want the movie to play in the same slide, the case when > you insert a movie, which can be played by the windows media player, into the > powerpoint. > > Making the movie using the windows movie maker is not nice (slow, > sluggish!....may be there are ways to make it nicer! which I dunno!). > > Then I installed Mencoder and issued the command: > > mencoder mf://*.png type=png -o output.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts > vcodec=msmpeg4v2:vbitrate=9000 > > I tried various vcodec= values. I still unable to insert the .avi into the > powerpoint. Windows media player cannot open the file either! > > I think there is something missing here!! I'd be appreciated if anyone can > share his/her experience in making a movie that will play as part of the slide > in the powerpoint on a PC laptop. > > P.S. I know that there might be other ways and a lot of options like > CCP4mg..etc. But I don't want to spend time making the figures again. I > already have the figures done in Pymol. > > thanks for your help in advance. > > thanks, > Ibrhaim > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------------------------- > Ibrahim M. Moustafa, Ph.D. > Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Dept. > 201 Althouse Lab., Uinversity Park > Pennsylvania State University, PA16802 > > Tel. (814)863-8703 > Fax. (814)865-7927 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------------------------- _____________________________________ Marko Hyvönen Department of Biochemistry University of Cambridge http://www-cryst.bioc.cam.ac.uk/~marko tel: +44-(0)1223-766 044 / 760 468, fax: 766 002 _______________________________________
