Re: VisAD and MPG files

• To: d-nguyen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
• Subject: Re: VisAD and MPG files
• From: Tom Whittaker <tomw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 15:22:38 -0600 (Central Standard Time)

Dave:

On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 d-nguyen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> Does VisAD have capabilities to produce MPG files?

Not that I'm aware of; however, you could use visad.Util.captureDisplay()
to write JPEG files for, say, each frame of an animation if that's what
you're interested in {or, from Python:  saveplot()}.  There are several
ways to convert a series of JPGs to an MPEG (pic2mpg, ImageMagick + MPEG
utility, etc).

One of our grad students took this approach to capturing the images, and
then used the AnimationsApplet (AniS) to animated them on the web.

tom

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Tom Whittaker
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Space Science and Eng. Center
ph:  608.262.2759

• References:
  • VisAD and MPG files
    • From: 8.9.3/8.9.3