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Re: [Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of 2D Cut-Out Animation System |
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Fri, 09 Nov 2001 20:58:06 +0000 |
I've tarred the source code for my programs along with some sample animation
code (all of the text files). I've also included a DOS binary copy of
TRACE.EXE because it requires the Allegro game library (giftware ... closer
to public domain than GPL) to compile and you might have some trouble doing
that.
I also sent some animation source code (party.txt for a really complex
piece, kids.txt for a medium-level piece, and cone.txt for a very simple
piece ... the other .TXT files are still-pictures of various characters).
For party.txt, there is a soundtrack, but it is very big and doesn't
compress well (already being in mp2 format), so I didn't include it.
Regardless of BMP2AVI being free or not, it is a windows-only application,
and that's reason enough to find an alternative. For now, I've been using a
hacked copy of the MSSG MPEG-2 encoder to go directly from .bmp to MPEG1/2.
There are 2 problems with this:
1) Although the MSSG encoder is open source (not sure about it being free),
the MPEG format is covered by patents requiring the payment of royalties.
2) On the technical level, it would be better to output an uncompressed
video file first, and then compress it later.
I've been searching for quite a while for a free program that will accept a
bunch of numbered .bmp files and output an uncompressed video file and have
found nothing. When I first wrote my animation program, I kind of assumed
that such programs must be widely available (how else would graphics
programs create video ... have each video format hard-coded into the
program? [unfortanetly, that seems to be the case for a lot of professional
programs]).
If this utility does in fact not exist in a free form, it might be very
useful to the community if I wrote such a program to convert uncompressed
graphics files to uncompressed video files (and since the animation program
is finshed, not counting the documentation that I'm in the process of
writing, I'll have the time to do it).
From: Loic Dachary <address@hidden>
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Subject: Re: [Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of 2D Cut-Out
Animation System
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 10:36:28 +0100
Hi,
I've not been able to download your software, as expected ;-)
Could you send me a tarbal with the distribution, by mail ?
Also note that you mention bmp2avi which is gratis but not
Free Software. Is there a Free Software that can do a similar job ?
Depending on non free software is problematic for most of us. I have
only Free Software on my computer, hence I won't be able to use your
software if I wanted to.
Cheers,
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