Yikes! You are right, that sentence was error-prone. I come wearing sackcloth and ashes.
I've done some more digging. Now I'm at home and using linux, instead of a mac... I think mencoder fits the bill for turning a set of image files into a movie. There are several options (mpeg-1 as you mention, plus motion png, motion jpeg, etc). See sec. 12.7 of the manual. But I'm not thrilled with the linux movie viewers I've found. It seems they either have a crappy GUI, or can't read the movies I make from mencoder. In particular gmplayer is awkward, and realplayer can't read either the mpeg's or avi's I made. My beefs with gmplayer: I can't step frame by frame through a movie. Again, think you're giving a talk at a scientific meeting, showing data at successive timesteps, and someone in the audience says "wait wait, go back a few frames." You want a keystroke that will go back one frame. Also some minor complaints, like it doesn't leave the first or last frame up before / after playing. I'm surprised realplayer won't read / can't find decoder for files that mplayer handles... Cheers, David > Wow, that's a good trick - getting 2.5 out of 3 things incorrect > in a single sentence :) > > True, QT-Pro is not free (like the non-Pro QT Player - which is free). > > But you do NOT need QT-Pro to *play* movies. The PRO version is > only required for the creation. Once the QT file is created ANY > QT Player can *play* it. > > It is not only for MACS. QT exists for Windows and the price is the > same as for Macs: free > > Everyone can play .mov files - either they download QT Player (NOT the > pro version unless they want to edit the movie you send them ;)) or > have MPlayer. That takes care of Macs, windoze systems, and linux/bsd > systems. Well, ok - maybe not "everyone" but close enough ;) _______________________________________________ Mjpeg-users mailing list Mjpeg-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mjpeg-users
