ian reinhart geiser on Fri, 19 Apr 2002 23:20:16 +0200


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Re: [PLUG] Converting graphics on linux


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On Friday 19 April 2002 10:11 am, Gerald D. Neale wrote:
> > General graphics question here,
> >
> > I got a HUGE animated gif with some simulation data
> > on it, and so far I have
> > yet to find a browser or viewer that can handle a
> > 150meg gif.  I was able to
> > break it up into individual gif files and now I wish
> > to convert it to an AVI
> > or Mpeg.  Can anyone tell me of  a library or shell
> > command to make these
> > into a real movie.  Also is there a mpeg or AVI
> > library that allows me to
> > write directly to the video file.  If so I can patch
> > this POS to output a
> > real video format instead of these huge GIF files.
>
> You might try the "convert" command in the imagemagick
> tool set. Here's a list of posible formats to convert
> to and from. GIF and MPEG are among them.
> http://www.imagemagick.org/www/ImageMagick.html
Unfortunately if I had the memory to contain 150megs of GIF file in memory 
this would not be an issue.  What I am looking for is a tool that will let 
you write all of the files to one file, and not take up all of the memory.

Are there any tools that can do this operation on disk?

Thanks
- -ian reinhart geiser
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