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Re: New Lego Technic avi
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lugnet.cad
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Mon, 3 Sep 2001 07:00:00 GMT
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Fredrik Glöckner wrote:
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> But could you play back the animation files on other systems without
> this software installed?
Well, you had to distrubute a free viewer (56 Kb) and a driver (27 Kb) and a 2 Kb document that reads "ANIMATE.EXE is a
player for PC Animate Plus and 3D WorkShop animations. Although it is copyrighted by Bill Marsh, you may distribute it
freely
with your animations. ANIMATE.EXE must be accompanied by ANIMATE.DOC
when it is distributed." and some more information.
My question is: Can you play back contemporary animation files at all? ;o)
To me, it's more of a lottery.
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> Anyway, this is probably a discussion of lossy vs non-lossy
> compression. Animated GIFs can be used to compose non-lossy
> animations. And MPEG-1 can be used to compose animations with lossy
> compression. (And there are lots of other, newer formats as well.)
My experience with animated GIFs is that the higher resolution, the slower they go.
But they are excellent for small web based things like, at my job, a flashing red LED indicating urgent issues.
Anyway, one cannot live in the past and that old program has an akward interface and images have to be imported by hand,
one by one! (The program was meant to use one static scene at the time and then you add moving objects. 2D faking
3D...).
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> On the other hand, keep in mind that the animated GIFs have been
> converted to 256 colours (or probably even less), which is also a
> lossy compression sheme!
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> Fredrik
With my limited experience, I prefer to reduce colour depth to 256 using nearest color, *no diffusion or dithering*.
Then I use MPEG with very low compression.
/Tore
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| (...) I'm not quite sure I understand what you mean by that. With animated GIFs, you can set manually the delay between each frame. So you control the speed yourself. Do you mean that large GIFs are slower because they take more CPU to display? (...) (23 years ago, 3-Sep-01, to lugnet.cad)
| | | Re: New Lego Technic avi
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| (...) (Oops, forgot to answer this one when I replied to your post just now.) Yes! I can play back most contemporary animations, both on Linux and Windows! On Linux I use MPlayer ((URL) can play back most MPEG and AVI files. (If you're a Linux user, (...) (23 years ago, 3-Sep-01, to lugnet.cad)
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| (...) But could you play back the animation files on other systems without this software installed? Anyway, this is probably a discussion of lossy vs non-lossy compression. Animated GIFs can be used to compose non-lossy animations. And MPEG-1 can be (...) (23 years ago, 2-Sep-01, to lugnet.cad)
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