Enceladus Transit animation

Malenfant · Post #1by **Malenfant** » 18.04.2006, 06:42

I made this using a sequence of images from Cassini (N00051816 - N00051850) - it's a quick animation of Enceladus passing in front of one of the other moons (Tethys? Dione?) - it's kinda cool

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(rightclick the image, save the link, then view the video)

julesstoop · Post #2by **julesstoop** » 18.04.2006, 16:08

What codec did you use?
I can't play it on my MacBook Pro (OS X 10.4.6) neither with QuickTime player (native or with emulated PowerPC codecs on), nor even with VLC which plays almost anything.
Could you be so kind to re-encode with something like a 'regular' mpeg4-codec?

Post #3by **t00fri** » 18.04.2006, 16:39

julesstoop wrote:What codec did you use?
I can't play it on my MacBook Pro (OS X 10.4.6) neither with QuickTime player (native or with emulated PowerPC codecs on), nor even with VLC which plays almost anything.
Could you be so kind to re-encode with something like a 'regular' mpeg4-codec?

It is cute and works fine on my Linux machine.

Bye Fridger

Post #4by **ElChristou** » 18.04.2006, 18:33

I haven't tested, but I suppose it must be a wmv3 file almost impossible to read on mac... (the problem is that this format IS a regular format...)

Post #5by **t00fri** » 18.04.2006, 18:43

ElChristou wrote:I haven't tested, but I suppose it must be a wmv3 file almost impossible to read on mac... (the problem is that this format IS a regular format...)

no its avi, completely standard stuff...

Post #6by **ElChristou** » 18.04.2006, 18:56

t00fri wrote:
ElChristou wrote:I haven't tested, but I suppose it must be a wmv3 file almost impossible to read on mac... (the problem is that this format IS a regular format...)

no its avi, completely standard stuff...

yep, but I have found some .avi files using some wmv3 codec making them unreadeable on mac... so I suppose it can be the case here, because VLC read really almost all the available format...

julesstoop · Post #7by **julesstoop** » 18.04.2006, 23:12

t00fri wrote:
ElChristou wrote:I haven't tested, but I suppose it must be a wmv3 file almost impossible to read on mac... (the problem is that this format IS a regular format...) :?

no its avi, completely standard stuff...

Fridger,
.avi is - not unlike QuickTime's .mov - a container format, which means the extension unfortunately tells us nothing about the actual codec used.

Malenfant · Post #8by **Malenfant** » 19.04.2006, 00:48

It's intel's indeo 5.1 codec. Pretty standard on windows. I don't have any other ones available to encode it in (I thought I had DivX knocking around but can't seem to find it right now).

julesstoop · Post #9by **julesstoop** » 19.04.2006, 06:22

Indeo used to be supported under QuickTime years ago, as I recall. Apple probably dropped it. Googling for it I can only find Mac Indeo codecs for OS 9 and older. Now that Apple uses Intel, who knows...

Thanks for letting us know though.