Re: [Plplot-general] Animation with plplot

[Werner S. <sm...@ia...>]

Hi,

> Our ninth example has 5 separate pages which the -fam option turns into
> 5 separate files.  I have also shown the use of the -fflen option which
> (in this case) insures the numerical suffix is three characters (in case
> you have more than 100 pages).  I assume ffmpeg would have no trouble
> converting a collection of gif images into a format suitable for animations,
> but I would be interested in exactly which end format you have chosen.

one additional note:

You can use Imagemagick to make an mpeg file. Just type (after you made 
the plots with PLplot and the family option):

convert -quality 80 *.png output.mpg

(if you have produced png files). Via the quality option you can reduce 
the size of the file.

Regards,
Werner

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