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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Jun 25 2004 - 17:50:10 CDT

Hi,
  I'm way behind on email, but my suggestion is to make sure
that you're making an MPEG-1 movie that's 352x240 or less, which
is the standard resolution. High resolution movies are only
quasi-legal with MPEG-1.

I plan to support a wider variety of video encoders with an
upcoming version of the vmdmovie plugin, which should allow people
to make MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 movies, which support much higher
resolutions legally! :-)

The main thing I have to determine are what freeware tools
are common, reliable, and compilable on multiple platforms.
If people have favorite movie encoders that they'd recommend,
which meet the guidelines below, please email me:
  1) free
  2) compilable from source code
  3) supports multiple platforms (Windows, Mac, Unix platforms..)
  4) reliable, produces movies without any significant glitches.

I'm willing to compromise on some of these if necessary (ala VideoMach for
example) but I'm most interested in programs that meet all 4 requirements.

  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 04:26:59PM -0700, Harindar Keer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I made a movie by taking snapshots using VMD in ppm format and convert
> them to mpeg file using ppmtompeg. I am not able to run the movie in
> windows media player, it shows just blank screen. But I am able to run
> the same mpg file on MpegTV on linux. It would be great if someone can
> point out what could go wrong.
>
> Thanks !!
> Harindar 

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