From: Maxim Belkin (mbelkin_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Mon Apr 07 2014 - 10:50:58 CDT

Hi Maria,

I assume that you are on OS X, so in folder
/Applications/VMD 1.9.1.app/Contents/vmd/plugins/noarch/tcl/vmdmovie1.9
manually edit the file vmdmovie.tcl
Change line 2086 to:
        catch {::ExecTool::exec pnmsmooth $newfilename > $oldfilename}

Maxim

On Apr 6, 2014, at 8:36 AM, Maria Pikoula <maria.pikoula_at_eng.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to generate a movie (MPEG-1) and I select also image smoothing and half-size rescaling. When I use image smoothing I get the following error:
>
>
> pnmsmooth: Running Pnmconvol -normalize -matrix=1,1,1;1,1,1;1,1,1
> pnmsmooth: Running Pnmconvol -normalize -matrix=1,1,1;1,1,1;1,1,1
> while executing
> "::exec /usr/local/bin/pnmsmooth /Users/sapik/Desktop/orig.flow_2ndhalf_movie_2b.00000.ppm > /Users/sapik/Desktop/flow_2ndhalf_movie_2b.00000.ppm"
> ("eval" body line 1)
> invoked from within
> "eval ::exec [list $exec_path] [lrange $args 1 end]"
> (procedure "::ExecTool::exec" line 14)
> invoked from within
> "::ExecTool::exec pnmsmooth $newfilename > $oldfilename"
> (procedure "smoothframes" line 27)
> invoked from within
> "smoothframes "
> (procedure "::MovieMaker::buildmovie" line 126)
> invoked from within
> "::MovieMaker::buildmovie"
> invoked from within
> ".movie.goabort.gobutton invoke"
> ("uplevel" body line 1)
> invoked from within
> "uplevel #0 [list $w invoke]"
> (procedure "tk::ButtonUp" line 23)
> invoked from within
> "tk::ButtonUp .movie.goabort.gobutton"
> (command bound to event)
>
>
> Any ideas how I could fix it?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Maria
>
> Maria Pikoula
> Doctoral Candidate in Centre for Doctoral Training in Healthcare Innovation
> Institute of Biomedical Engineering
> Department of Engineering Science
> University of Oxford
> maria.pikoula_at_eng.ox.ac.uk
>