Hi Ibrahim,
I have used pretty much the same options for mencoder as you.
mencoder "mf://myfile*.*[0-9].png" -mf fps=18 -o mymovie.mpg -ovc lavc
-lavcopts vcodec=msmpeg4v2:vbitrate=9000
(and yes, 18fps is on the slow side, but in my opinion sufficient)
Several people have played these movies in their powerpoints successfully,
but I did have some trouble in the beginning changing between WinXP to
win2000, but I recall using version 2 of msmpeg sorted that out.
But perhaps more crucially I also had problems with the same movie file
depending on the extension it had (I think I had .avi intially and that
failed) - this might have to do with default application for that file
type. I am guessing you should have windows mediaplayer as default for
these movie to work well in powerpoint - that's what I have and have not
dared to fiddle with it now that everything works Ok.
cheers, Marko
On Fri, 25 May 2007, Ibrahim M. Moustafa wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to make a movie for a powerpoint presentation but going through
> some problems.
>
> I can make the frames in Pymol, so I have the series of .png files; no
> problem in that. The problem is to get a movie (.avi) so it can be inserted
> into the powerpoint.
>
> Googling showed a nice thread in ccp4bb and it is really helpful; but still
> can't make what I want exactly.
>
> I can make a movie.mov which can be played by Quicktime or realplayer;
> however, I don't like the way of playing the movie using other program during
> the presentation! I want the movie to play in the same slide, the case when
> you insert a movie, which can be played by the windows media player, into the
> powerpoint.
>
> Making the movie using the windows movie maker is not nice (slow,
> sluggish!....may be there are ways to make it nicer! which I dunno!).
>
> Then I installed Mencoder and issued the command:
>
> mencoder mf://*.png type=png -o output.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts
> vcodec=msmpeg4v2:vbitrate=9000
>
> I tried various vcodec= values. I still unable to insert the .avi into the
> powerpoint. Windows media player cannot open the file either!
>
> I think there is something missing here!! I'd be appreciated if anyone can
> share his/her experience in making a movie that will play as part of the slide
> in the powerpoint on a PC laptop.
>
> P.S. I know that there might be other ways and a lot of options like
> CCP4mg..etc. But I don't want to spend time making the figures again. I
> already have the figures done in Pymol.
>
> thanks for your help in advance.
>
> thanks,
> Ibrhaim
>
>
>
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