Re: [ns] animated gifs from ns

[Haobo Yu <haoboy@packetdesign.com>]

As an alternative, I believe you can use berkeley mpeg_encode to convert a
sequence of ppm files to a mpeg-1 stream. This was what nam animation
implemented about 3 years ago (I think before the animated gif got into
nam...)

You can get the software from
ftp://mm-ftp.CS.Berkeley.EDU/pub/multimedia/mpeg/encode/

On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Robin Poss wrote:

> hello, 
> I would like to make an animated gif from a nam ouput.
> I foud these instructions in the nam manual:
> The following shell script (sh, not csh) converts these files into an animated gif: 
> 
> for i in *.xwd; do
>         xwdtoppm <$i |
>         ppmtogif -interlace -transparent'#e5e5e5' >`basename $i .xwd`.gif;
> done
> gifmerge -l0 -2 -229,229,229 *.gif >movie.gif
> 
> however , after having installed with difficulty pbmplus from
> http://www.acme.com/software/pbmplus/, and gifmerge from
> http://www.the-labs.com/GIFMerge/, it still doesn't work.
> 
> I would appreciate any ideas about other ways to make this
> animated gif, as well as pointers towards more recent versions of
> xwdtoppm, pbmplus and gifmerge.
> thanks, 
> 
> -- 
> Robin
>