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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Tue May 03 2005 - 09:59:45 CDT

Hi Adrian,
  I'm assuming that you're running Windows, and that you haven't
installed VideoMach yet, right? You'll need to install VideoMach
in order to make movies with VMD on Windows. See the help information here:
  http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/plugins/vmdmovie/

If you're interested, I also have an improved version of the movie
maker plugin available for testing.

  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 03:42:00PM +0800, Adrian Koh wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I have a trajectory file in the .xyz format that I desire to make it to
> an .avi or .mpeg movie. I tried using the plugin "vmdmovie" under the
> "Extension" menu, 7 out of 8 steps were completed in the process. The
> very last step of converting the extracted picture frames to a movie
> file failed, with the error message shown in the attached log.
>
> Anyone knows what happened in the process, and how could this be
> rectified? Thank you very much for your kind attention :).
>
>
> Best Regards,
> Adrian.

> couldn't execute "c:\program files\videomach-2.7.2\vmach.exe": no such file or directory
> couldn't execute "c:\program files\videomach-2.7.2\vmach.exe": no such file or directory
> while executing
> "exec "c:/program files/videomach-2.7.2/vmach.exe" /OpenSeq=$mybasefilename /SaveVideo=$myoutfilename /Start /Exit"
> (procedure "videomachmpeg" line 30)
> invoked from within
> "videomachmpeg "
> ("videomachmpeg" arm line 2)
> invoked from within
> "switch $movieformat {
> ffmpeg {
> ffmpeg ;# Convert frame sequence to MPEG-1 video file
> }
> ppmtompeg {
> ppmtomp..."
> (procedure "::MovieMaker::buildmovie" line 150)
> 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 24)
> invoked from within
> "tk::ButtonUp .movie.goabort.gobutton
> "
> (command bound to event) 

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