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Subject: -12- How can I convert from SGI movie format to MPEG?
Date: Fri May 3 11:12:41 PDT 1996
- If you are using IRIX 5.3 with the Digital Media Tools 5.5
software product, or IRIX 6.2, you can use the Movie Master
or dmconvert utilities to create MPEG movies. See the first
question in this FAQ for information on downloading the
Digital Media Tools 5.5 software product from SGI.
- If you are using IRIX 5.3 or earlier, SGI provides no bundled
tools to convert SGI movies to MPEG.
There is a publically available program which can convert SGI
movie files to MPEG. It was developed by Andreas Paul
<paula@informatik.tu-muenchen.de>. It can be obtained from:
ftp://ftp.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/pub/systems/sgi/animation/mv2mpeg_final.tar.gz
It is for IRIX 5.x systems, and supports all versions of the SGI
movie file format.
If you are using IRIX 4.0.x, then get mov2mpeg from
ftp://ftp.gvu.gatech.edu/pub/people/kooper/mov2mpeg.tar.gz
Finally, another way to convert to MPEG is to export all of
the images and audio track from the SGI movie file by using
moviemaker or makemovie, and feed the result (a sequence of
still frames) into one of the public domain MPEG encoders
available on the net.
There is yet another freely available tool, mv2mpeg, for creating
MPEG files. Here is a quote from its README file:
mv2mpeg is a tool to convert a SGI-movie-file into a mpeg-movie.
It consists of a shell-script ('mv2mpeg') and two binaries:
mpeg_encode
mv2frames
mpeg_encode has been compiled with the '-mips2' switch, so if
you are using a R3000 machine get the mpeg_encode package and
compile it yourself. (shouldn't be much of a problem)
It can be found at:
qiclab.scn.rain.com:/pub/graphics/mpeg_encode-1.2.tar.Z
liasun3.epfl.ch:/pub/graphics/mpeg/mpeg_encode-1.2.tar.gz
If you don't find it there use 'archie' to locate the nearest
site that has it.
Regardless of IRIX software release, there is at least one
commercial product which can create MPEG files, called MpegExpert:
MpegExpert is the highest performance and most featured MPEG
playback solution for SGI platforms. It plays compressed MPEG-1
audio, video or system level multiplexed audio+video bitstreams in
realtime with stereo CD quality sound. With the integrated
CAPTURE_TOOL it lets the user cut and save pictures or sequences
from an MPEG source, allowing a simple form of editing. And with
the CD_TOOL user can play Video_CD and CD-I digital movies from a
CDROM player. Its specially designed data input architecture
enables smooth MPEG playback from video servers over networks.
MpegExpert can be integrated into other applications or it can be
used interactively through its motif based user interface.
MpegExpert software, documentation, and demo version are available
on line via anonymous ftp from ftp.portal.com:/pub/apvision or
ftp.netcom.com:/pub/ap/apvision. Any further inquiry if required,
can be sent to apvision@netcom.com
For more information on MPEG, and a list of places where you can
obtain MPEG encoder software, consult the MPEG Frequently Asked
Questions document. You can FTP it from
ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/msdos/dos/graphics/mpegfa11.zip
ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/msdos/dos/graphics/mpegfa20.zip
ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/msdos/dos/graphics/mpegfa30.zip
ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/msdos/dos/graphics/mpegfa31.zip
These documents are versions 1.1, 2.0, 3.0, and 3.1 of the MPEG FAQ
document.
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