Sfinx software tree
There are movies and movies. Movies as a sequence of images can be created
in many of the astronomical image processing packages, but can hardly be played
outside the package.
And then there are the various movie formats that can be found everywhere on
the World Wide Web:
- MPEG
- This is a highly compressed movie format. For full-screen replay, special
hardware is required, which we don't have.
A program called mpeg_play
is available to play such a movie in a small window.
- Another MPEG player is xmpeg.
This one has some
control buttons in addition to the display window, allowing to
stop, pause and rewind the movie.
- Software to create MPEG movies is also availabel and is called
mpeg. This program is also able to
decompose a movie into separate frames.
- FLI / FLC
- AVI (Video for Windows)
- QuickTime (Apple MacIntosh)
- others...
- Use xanim to display these. Some of
these file types may contain sound as well,
so be careful where you play them.
- No UNIX software is available to create such movies (yet)...
David.Jansen@strw.leidenuniv.nl
Last modified: Tue Oct 29 16:32:40 MET 1996