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From: Carla Jamous (carlajamous_at_gmail.com)
Date: Tue Sep 21 2010 - 09:50:05 CDT

Hi,

I installed the program "ppmtompeg" to my machine. Yet, I still get a
thousand ppm files instead of one mpeg file.
I'm sorry I'm really a beginner so please can you help me get one mpg file?

Thank you

Carla

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 2:39 PM, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
> Do you have the program "ppmtompeg" installed on your machine?
> See the "software requirements" section of the VMD movie plugin
> documentation:
> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/plugins/vmdmovie/
>
> Cheers,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 02:36:20PM +0200, Carla Jamous wrote:
> > I'm using VMD 1.8.6 on Ubuntu. I selected format MPEG-1(ppmtompeg).
> >
> > Thanks again,
> > Carla
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 2:32 PM, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > You didn't say what operating system you're using or which version
> > of VMD you're running, both of which would be very helpful in
> allowing
> > us to give you suggestions. Which movie compression format did you
> > select in the movie maker plugin graphical interface?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > John Stone
> > vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 02:07:52PM +0200, Carla Jamous wrote:
> > > Hi everyone,
> > >
> > > please it's the first time I'm trying to make a movie with vmd.
> > > I did with movie maker (like in the tutorial).
> > > I get like a million files *.ppm, is that normal? how can I get
> a
> > single
> > > *.mpg file?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Carla
> > >
> > > PS: sorry if my question is too stupid! but I don't have the
> answer
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> University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
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