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From: Magnus Andersson (magnus_at_helium.biomol.uci.edu)
Date: Thu Nov 10 2011 - 16:03:41 CST

Be sure you have ppmtompeg installed

http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/ppmtompeg.html

then provide the path to the "ppmtompeg"

It worked for me on Mac.

Magnus

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On Nov 10, 2011, at 12:57 PM, Rabab Toubar wrote:

> I am trying to generate a movie (.mpeg). get the ppm files OK, but I get a pop up error message saying: Couldn't locate ppmtompeg, would you like to specify its path? I am using VMD 1.8.7 on Ubuntu. In the destination folder I also have a .par file
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> Any suggestions are appreciated
> Thanks
>
> Rabab Toubar