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From: Ioana Cozmuta (ioana_at_nas.nasa.gov)
Date: Fri Aug 08 2003 - 18:56:30 CDT

Hi John,

Thanks for your reply.
I do not know how to use NetPBM and ImageMagick separately... I know I
have them on my system otherwise vmd would not run.
Could you be more explicit or can you point me to some examples?

Thanks,

Ioana

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On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, John Stone wrote:

>
> Ioana,
> You should be able to compile/install the NetPBM and ImageMagick
> packages on your machine and use them to compress the movie into MPEG
> format. This should work, independent of the problem you encountered
> with 'dmconvert' on your SGI. See the "software requirements" section
> of the 'vmdmovie' plugin documentation page:
> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/plugins/vmdmovie/
>
> Let us know if you need more help.
>
> Thanks,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 04:20:49PM -0700, Ioana Cozmuta wrote:
> > Hi VMD-ers,
> >
> > I am unable to generate mpg files when I run VMD over the network on the
> > machine where I store the trajectory files. I can't get the trajectories
> > on my local machine (not enough disk space). So I only manage to generate
> > the rgb files.
> > Is there a way to use vmd to do the mpg file?
> >
> > I would greatly appreciate your help,
> > thanks,
> > Ioana
> >
> >
> >
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