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From: Axel Kohlmeyer (akohlmey_at_cmm.chem.upenn.edu)
Date: Mon Jul 03 2006 - 11:30:24 CDT

On Mon, 3 Jul 2006, Mark Lorch wrote:

mark,

ML> I'm trying to make movies on a PPC Mac running os x 10.4.7 and VMD 1.8.4
ML>
ML> I used darwin ports to download and install netpbm. According to darwin
ML> ports netpbm installed fine.
ML>
ML> When I use the extension it appears to make the individual images but
ML> the resulting mpg is empty.
ML>
ML> Has anyone got any idea what I'm doing wrong.

please check the mailing list archives. the same symptom has been
reported a number of times. there was a serious memory management
problem in some versions of netpbm, that was cleaned up a while
ago, i.e. you have to make sure, that you have a _recent_ version
of netpbm installed on your machine.

regards,
     axel.

ML>
ML> Thanks
ML> Mark
ML>
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