hi paul,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 8:46 PM, W2AGZ <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:w2agz@w2agz.com">w2agz@w2agz.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal">It seems that the mpeg_encode and whirlgif packages are no longer available for XCrysDen, and their old source codes are “un-make-able,” at least within the current release of Ubuntu. Any advice on how to “capture” the animation sequence of, e.g., structure relaxation, for use in an presentation format such as Powerpoint or Impress?</p>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>have you checked out one of the following programs?</div><div>- ppmtompeg (part of the netpbm package)</div><div>- mencoder (part of the mplayer suite)</div><div>- gifsicle (best gif encoder i know)</div>
<div>- convert (part of the ImageMagik package, worst gif encoder i know)</div><div><br></div><div>all of those were already supported by XCrySDen many years ago,</div><div>so i would assume they still are.</div><div> </div>
<div>cheers,</div><div> axel.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal">
<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">-Paul Grant<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">W2AGZ Technologies (<a href="http://www.w2agz.com" target="_blank">www.w2agz.com</a>)<u></u><u></u></p>
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