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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Jmol-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-developers
