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From: Axel Kohlmeyer (akohlmey_at_gmail.com)
Date: Wed Aug 22 2012 - 04:58:30 CDT

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 11:01 AM, javacfish <javacfish_at_yahoo.com.cn> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> When I make movie through VMD movie maker, I choose the Renderer "POV-Ray",
> it can not make the movie, the err as below:
>
> ######################################################################
>
> ppmtompeg: Couldn't open input file '/home/test/doc/dna.00000.ppm'
> Cleaning generated data, frames, and encoder parameter files
> Movie generation complete.
>
> ########################################################################
>
> I found the generated file format is ".pov". It is weird.
>
> Could some body can give me some suggestions? How do I deal with it?

do you have a working povray installation?
have you tried it from the Render menu for a single frame?

is there any special reason to use povray over Tachyon?

axel.

>
> Sincerely yours,
> javacfish 

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International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste. Italy.