Dear Mark,
I am always using mencoder with Windows and it has so far always
worked fine for me.
I didn't need to install anything, normally I just copy the
mencoder.exe file to the directory with my png frames.
Then, I use the following command line in a DOS command window:
c:\my_path\mencoder mf://*.png -mf fps=25:type=png -ovc lavc -ni
-lavcopts vcodec=msmpeg4v2:vbitrate=10000000:vhq -nosound -o
MyVideo.avi
Hope this helps.
Maike
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All,
Pardon the slightly off-topic question.
We would like to use Pymol and generate movies with it on a
WINDOWS computer. We are very familiar with Pymol and how to
make the correct views etc. We write the individual frames out
into PNG files.
So what is left to do, is to "stitch together" the PNG images
to an MPEG file. On Linux you could do this with mencoder. But
we would like to do this on Windows and installing mencoder on
windows is possible but not easy.
We have found videomach, which costs a very small amount of
money to obtain. Similarly, Adobe Premiere is affordable for
an educational institution. We don't mind paying, but before
we go there, does anyone have experience with making MPEG
movies from PNG files on windows? What is your experience with
quality of product and especially with user friendliness?
If you have any insight, we would appreciate your comments.
Thanks!
Mark van der Woerd
Colorado State University