
Movietool is a display tool for sequences of Sun rasterfiles,
providing "video animation" in a Sun window.

Movietool displays a sequence of color or monochrome raster files
(see man 5 rasterfile) in real-time or near-real-time.
On a Sun 3/50M with 4 MB of RAM, monochrome images of 600 by 800 pixels
may be played at about 16 frames per second.

This is movietool version 1.0

Copyright 1989 by Ole H. Nielsen
This software may be distributed freely provided that:
1) this copyright notice is kept intact,
2) you do not try to sell this software for a profit,
3) you provide the full source code.

Author: Ole H. Nielsen
        Lab of Applied Physics, Bygn. 307
        Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800 Lyngby
        E-mail: ohnielse@ltf.dth.dk

Comments for improvement are welcomed !


Installation:
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Just say "make" to create movietool.
To install it, check the Makefile for the "install" target and modify
it as needed.  The manual page should be installed on the system along
with movietool itself.

Testing:
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There is a compressed tar-file of rasters: rasters.tar.Z which may be
unpacked by "make rasters" (almost 1 Mbyte in 50 files).  To play this
(monochrome) movie, say "movietool tp*".

To do:
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Write an interface to a video animation system, such as the Lyon Lamb
MINIVAS controller, so that the sequence of pictures will be recorded
on video tape.  The SunVideo system may be used to generate the video 
signal, or some type of frame-scan converter.
