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ridiculous avi export

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg66730] ridiculous avi export
• From: "Chris Chiasson" <chris at chiasson.name>
• Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 21:04:06 -0400 (EDT)
• References: <acbec1a40605251445k8ffad34w33384f4caade86fe@mail.gmail.com>
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Why is it that the avi version is about 75 times the size of the the
3.5 MB animated gif file below? Is Mathematica just dumping the pixel
data without compression? Both were created by using the Export
function on a set of Graphics objects (not containing any raster
data).

http://chris.chiasson.name/temp/test.gif

http://chris.chiasson.name/temp/test.avi

Also, both exports take "forever"... what's going on?

Mathematica 5.2 on Winodws XP,
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