Hi all, First, apologies for being off-topic, but I'm exploring all opportunities. When I complete my Ph.D. research a few years ago, I done all my work on an SGI. On reviewing my work recently, I discovered that most of animations I created are in SGIs movie format. I've tried some options including xanim to view them in linux, but because I created the movies with compression on each frame, I can't get them to play. Rather than recreating the original files, what I really want to do is convert these files from SGI format to quicktime, or extract the original frames. In fact, there is a command to do this on the SGI - dmconvert. Before I go ahead and buy an SGI via eBay or similar (which may or may not work), I was wondering whether anyone here has, or has access to an SGI which could do the movie conversion. I could supply the original movies on CD for you to convert, or we could work together to do this. I know this is a long shot, but can anyone help me? -- Ashley T. Howes, Ph.D. http://www.ashleyhowes.com "May your spirit be renewed in earth's solitary places." - Native American Indian Blessing
On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 04:56:29PM +0000, Ashley T. Howes, Ph.D. wrote:
When I complete my Ph.D. research a few years ago, I done all my work on an SGI. On reviewing my work recently, I discovered that most of animations I created are in SGIs movie format. I've tried some options including xanim to view them in linux, but because I created the movies with compression on each frame, I can't get them to play.
Rather than recreating the original files, what I really want to do is convert these files from SGI format to quicktime, or extract the original frames. In fact, there is a command to do this on the SGI - dmconvert.
Before I go ahead and buy an SGI via eBay or similar (which may or may not work), I was wondering whether anyone here has, or has access to an SGI which could do the movie conversion.
I could supply the original movies on CD for you to convert, or we could work together to do this.
I know this is a long shot, but can anyone help me?
If you can't find anyone who actually has an SGI themselves to help I know at least a couple of people who might be able to help out. J. -- [ I'm an atheist myself - there is no Greg Hill. ] [ http://www.blackcatnetworks.co.uk/ - IPv6 enabled ADSL/dialup/colo ]
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Ashley T. Howes, Ph.D. wrote:
Before I go ahead and buy an SGI via eBay or similar (which may or may not work), I was wondering whether anyone here has, or has access to an SGI which could do the movie conversion.
I'm sending this email from the SGI O2 that's currently sitting on my desk. Get in touch. Michael Morton
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