The animation FAQ is still under development. Most questions can still be answered by the stills FAQ. If you can't find your answer there, ask on one of the discussion mailing lists or write to the admin team.
One bit of info we do have now is this table of known softare. We would very much like to fill in the gaps in this table, so if you know of some software that we've overlooked, please write to the admin team and tell us about it.
| Function | Win16 | Win32 | Mac | Linux | Other Personal | Other Unix | Other |
| Encoding | cmpeg |
cmpeg |
Sparkle | mpeg_encode |
cmpeg (DOS) |
mpeg_encode |
--- |
| " | --- | MainActor(crippleware) | Astarte | PVRG mpeg |
--- | PVRG mpeg |
--- |
| " | --- | --- | --- | sampeg | --- | sampeg | --- |
| Playing | vmpeg |
mpeg2play |
QuickTime MPEG | mpeg_play |
vmpeg (DOS) |
mpeg_play |
--- |
| " | --- | ActiveMovie (Available with IE install) | Sparkle | mplayer |
--- | mplayer |
--- |
| " | --- | --- | --- | mpegtv |
--- | mpegtv (BSDI, Irix, Solaris) |
--- |
| Conversion | Videdit (FLI/C->AVI, AVI creation) | avi2mpg1 | Sparkle | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Other operations | Dave's Targa Animator (TGA(s)->FLI/C) | --- | --- | mpeg_stat (statistics) |
--- | mpeg_stat (statistics) |
--- |
| " | Video for DOS (FLI/C->AVI) | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |