From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Mon Apr 23 2012 - 15:52:40 CDT

Joshua,
  I'm curious about the POV-Ray crash you described. Does VMD
itself crash, or does POV-Ray crash? How much memory does your
computer have? It is possible that either POV-Ray or VMD are
running out of memory. If you can tell me more details of your
machine that would be helpful.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 01:54:54PM -0700, Engelman, Joshua wrote:
> Hello again,
> I've created a simple 1000 particle system that runs for 100 timesteps.
> I've been testing the moviemaker plugin, and have run into a number of
> problems. First, using POV-ray to render causes VMD to crash. Second,
> regardless of the renderer used (Tachyon, Internal Tachyon, Snapshot), the
> movie severely degrades in quality after around .5 seconds (out of 4 in
> the trajectory movie). I know that it has to be small because of the
> compression size, but it shouldn't continue to get worse as the movie
> plays. Any advice?
> Joshua Engelman
> University of Michigan

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