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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu Aug 01 2002 - 23:53:24 CDT

We're using 9.23 on all of our machines here, I'll try 10.6 soon and
let you know what happens. If its a bug in NetPBM (certainly sounds like it),
we should definitely report it to the NetPBM people so they can fix their
code...
 
  John

On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 12:52:26AM -0400, Michael Murray wrote:
> Mr. Stone,
>
> Yes, I we are using version 10.6. Maybe we should be trying one of the 9.x
> versions?
>
> On 8/1/02 9:00 PM, "John Stone" <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi Michael,
> > I haven't encountered this problem with the 9.x versions of NetPBM, but
> > I downloaded NetPBM 10.6 today and I'll see if I have the same problem you
> > describe. You said you're running the latest version, so I assume you've
> > got 10.6 then?? Please let me know the exact version, otherwise we may
> > waste valuable time trying to reproduce the problem with a different
> > version of the code.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > John Stone
> > vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 03:07:25PM -0400, mimurra3 wrote:
> >> All,
> >>
> >> I am having issues getting vmdmovie to create an mpeg file. The script seems
> >> to run just fine. It creates the rgb files and then converts them to ppm
> >> without problems. However, ppmtompeg creates an mpeg file of zero size. I
> >> saw a previous message to the list with the same problem but we are the most
> >> recent version of Netppm and version 1.7.1 of VMD under Linux.
> >>
> >> I changed the script to keep the rgb and ppm files. I looked at the ppm
> >> files
> >> using GIMP and they definitely contain pictures. When I tried running
> >> ppmtompeg from the command line using the script created by VMD I don't get
> >> an
> >> error message. Instead, it outputs only
> >>
> >> MPEG ENCODER STATS (1.5b)
> >> ------------------------
> >> TIME STARTED: Thu Aug 1 13:06:22 2002
> >> MACHINE: unknown
> >> FIRST FILE: /home/mimurra3/movie_stuff/test/untitled.0000.ppm
> >> LAST FILE: /home/mimurra3/movie_stuff/test/untitled.0179.ppm
> >> PATTERN: ibbpbbpbbpbbpbb
> >> GOP_SIZE: 15
> >> SLICES PER FRAME: 1
> >> RANGE: +/-32
> >> PIXEL SEARCH: HALF
> >>
> >> and again creates an empty .mpg file. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> >>
> >> thanks,
> >> Mike
> >>
> >> --------------------------
> >> Michael Murray
> >> Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
> >> Biochemistry Department
> >> 201 Engel Hall
> >> 

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