On Sun, 2011-11-06 at 11:50 -0500, Axel Kohlmeyer wrote: > hi paul, > > On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 8:46 PM, W2AGZ <w2agz at w2agz.com> wrote: > It seems that the mpeg_encode and whirlgif packages are no > longer available for XCrysDen, and their old source codes are > ?un-make-able,? at least within the current release of Ubuntu. > Any advice on how to ?capture? the animation sequence of, > e.g., structure relaxation, for use in an presentation format > such as Powerpoint or Impress? > > > > > have you checked out one of the following programs? > - ppmtompeg (part of the netpbm package) > - mencoder (part of the mplayer suite) > - gifsicle (best gif encoder i know) > - convert (part of the ImageMagik package, worst gif encoder i know) > > > all of those were already supported by XCrySDen many years ago, > so i would assume they still are.
Which, indeed, they still are. The mpeg_encode and whirlgif are not used anymore for years. It is true that sometimes making a movie can be tricky, but xcrysden gives you a possibility to edit the movie encoding script before the encoding, which can be useful when and if the default route fails. Regards, Tone -- Anton Kokalj J. Stefan Institute, Jamova 39, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia (tel: +386-1-477-3523 // fax:+386-1-477-3822) Please, if possible, avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
