Dear Axel, <br><br>Thanks for your input. Of course I have plenty of disk space (200 GB empty) and memory (8 GB).<br>I believe the problem was something else with the version 1.4.1, because I tried making movie with the same version<br>
on three different systems and got the same problem. The problem has been rectified when I installed the latest <br>snapshot of xcrysden (version 1.5.17). Thanks to Anton. I could make the movie out of the same .axsf file with <br>
new version, without any issue.<br><br>Thanks and regards,<br><br>Rajan<br><br>IBM I<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Axel Kohlmeyer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:akohlmey@cmm.chem.upenn.edu" target="_blank">akohlmey@cmm.chem.upenn.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Raj Pandey wrote:<br>
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RP> Dear PWSCF developers and users,<br>
RP><br>
RP> I am using xcrysden (XCrySDen-1.4.1bin-static). I have also installed<br>
RP> whirlgif, and mpeg_encode (/usr/bin). When I am trying to make a mpeg<br>
RP> or gif movie from "file.axsf" (about 152 coordinate steps), I get the<br>
RP> following error at 70th step:<br>
RP><br>
RP> ERROR: while executing<br>
RP> exec /usr/bin/convert<br>
RP> /home/rajan/xcrys_tmp/xc_13003/tmp.ppm<br>
RP> /home/rajan/xcrys_tmp/xc_13003/anime69.jpg<br>
RP><br>
RP> I will greatly appreciate your help/suggestion.<br>
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have you checked whether you have enough diskspace?<br>
<br>
making movies is quite demanding wrt storage.<br>
<br>
cheers,<br>
axel.<br>
<br>
RP><br>
RP> Thanks,<br>
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