AVI File Formats

AVI movies can be written using a wide range of file formats. D3PLOT supports the following four, since they have been found to play successfully using 'xanim' on a range of UNIX machines and Microsoft's ActiveMovie on PC's.

MJPG:	Each frame within the movie is stored as an 24 bit JPEG image. This format offers the best combination of quality and size and is recommended unless your player will not support it.
8 Bit Compressed :	Each frame within the movie is stored as an 8 bit RLE Microsoft windows bitmap.
8 Bit Uncompressed :	Each frame within the movie is stored as an 8 bit uncompressed Microsoft windows bitmap. The approximate size of the movie is: [#frames * image width * image height] bytes
24 Bit Uncompressed :	Each frame within the movie is stored as an 24 bit uncompressed Microsoft windows bitmap. The approximate size of the movie is: [3 * #frames * image width * image height] bytes

The Controls apply equally to the 8 bit formats here in exactly the same way as they do to static images.

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