What to do
The intention is that the movies on this site should work across
all graphical browsers and all operating systems.
If all else fails, the movies should be playable with
the open source
mplayer
media player.
How the movies were made
The movies were made on a linux box with the open source
mencoder
(part of
mplayer)
and
mjpegtools
utilities.
The microsoft-mpeg4 movies (.avi extension)
were made with the following mencoder commands (a two pass render):
mencoder "mf://*.jpg" -o movie_ms.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=msmpeg4:vbitrate=2000:vhq:vpass=1
mencoder "mf://*.jpg" -o movie_ms.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=msmpeg4:vbitrate=2000:vhq:vpass=2
The quicktime movies (.mov extension)
were made with the following mencoder and mjpegtools commands:
mencoder "mf://*.jpg" -o movie.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mjpeg
lavtrans -o movie.mov -f q movie.avi