jaboua wrote:lessthanjake wrote:How about a mgn-file: http://nedrebo.org/arch/movie.mng
I think that's been mentioned
Missed it, but it plays fine om my pc using showimg from aur, and its supposed to play on Windows using the brilliant all eating irfanview.
A KDE application, ugh! :?
I couldn't yet find any method to play a large MNG. Qiv and gqview don't recognize it and ImageMagick's "animate" runs out of memory. The support for the animated GIF's successor seems to be really poor.
Just curious: what do you use to generate MNGs?
]]>I wasn't referring to the creation of stills, but rather the use of .ps output from gnuplot and the imagemagick conver tool to make them into an animated gif.
Isn't any static image, even if it's encoded in the Postscript language, a still? In other words, what advantage is the use of a vector graphic format like PS as input to ImageMagick supposed to have over what I have mentioned to have tried already?
As a matter of fact, unlike gifsicle, imagemagick fails for me to make (and play) a huge animated GIF because it requires too much memory.
]]>iBertus wrote:Is this something that would help?
No, because creating the stills that make up the movie is not the issue. The point is rather the movie format (as MPEG, though yielding excellent results elsewhere, is fairly inefficient for this kind of input data) and how to generate it using Linux software.
I wasn't referring to the creation of stills, but rather the use of .ps output from gnuplot and the imagemagick conver tool to make them into an animated gif.
]]>lessthanjake wrote:How about a mgn-file: http://nedrebo.org/arch/movie.mng
I think that's been mentioned
Missed it, but it plays fine om my pc using showimg from aur, and its supposed to play on Windows using the brilliant all eating irfanview.
]]>How about a mgn-file: http://nedrebo.org/arch/movie.mng
I think that's been mentioned
]]>What about putting all the plots in a directory and using some image viewer app to slideshow them with a given speed?
That is possible, I have already tried it. However, I would rather have one file that I could e.g. send to someone else, put on the web, use for presentations, etc.
To put things straight, I don't have a real problem in the sense that I cannot make something work. And the particular plots which I wanted to animate are not that important either. I only wanted to know if something exists which is better suited for simple black&white plots than MPEG codecs, as I was pretty shocked about their poor performance at first (although on second thought it was clear why).
]]>Is this something that would help?
No, because creating the stills that make up the movie is not the issue. The point is rather the movie format (as MPEG, though yielding excellent results elsewhere, is fairly inefficient for this kind of input data) and how to generate it using Linux software.
]]>Just to see your masterpieces, I did "pacman -S acroread" to download the 36.3 MB heavy Acrobat Reader. ;-)
Well, it does work, sort of, but what if you wanted it to rotate a bit faster and more fluently?
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