EasyBMPtoAVI 0.55

EasyBMPtoAVI project, a Movie Creator, is a cross-platform application that converts a series of windows bitmap (BMP) images to an AVI movie file. Currently, EasyBMPtoAVI Movie Creator is supported on little-endian (e.g., x86) machines on any platform, but big-endian support is expected soon.

Scientists may find this software particularly useful for creating animated visualizations from series of still images.

EasyBMPtoAVI Movie Creator provides a simple command line interface (CLI) that is consistent across platforms, and it interactively quizzes the user if any necessary information is missing. EasyBMPtoAVI Movie Creator is being designed with ease of use as a top goal. To that end, a graphical user interface (GUI) is planned for a future release.

The EasyBMPtoAVI project was first begun on SourceForge on May 19, 2006.

Installation:

To compile with mingw, g++, or icc:

1) Go to http://easybmp.sourceforge.net/download.html and download the most recent version of EasyBMP.

2) Extract the contents of EasyBMP_#.##.zip (where #.## is the version number) into the source directory. Take care not to overwrite the supplied makefile!

3) Type "make" without the quotes. Thats it!

To compile with Microsoft Visual Studio:

1) Go to http://easybmp.sourceforge.net/download.html and download the most recent version of EasyBMP.

2) Extract the contents of EasyBMP_#.##.zip (where #.## is the version number) into the source directory.

3) Open Visual Studio, and create a new, empty win32 console application.

4) In the "Solution Explorer" panel, right-click on the "Source Files" icon, choose "Add," then "Existing item..."

5) Browse to the source directory, and select both EasyBMP.cpp and EasyBMPtoAVI.cpp.

6) In the "Solution Explorer" panel, right-click on the "Header Files" icon, choose "Add," then "Existing item..." (This step is unnecessary in VS 2005)

7) Browse to the source directory, and select all the EasyBMP*.h files. (This step is unnecessary in VS 2005.)

8) Build the project.