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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Fri Jun 25 2004 - 17:54:33 CDT

Hi,
  I'm working on a new vmdmovie plugin that will work with the latest
version of VideoMach. I should have something available in a week or
two. The code should be ready now, but due to issues with our network
infrastructure, I can't do any software builds for a while yet.

Thanks,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 10:07:31AM +0200, Karsten Suhre wrote:
> Dear Jay and John,
>
> a collegue of mine is actually having a similar problem :
>
> In her case the reason is that she bought a videomach license, but the
> version number is different (3.0) and so are the directory names and the
> executable name (I did not succeed in renaming the files and getting
> videomach starting anyhow).
>
> Is there a way to tell vmd that you are using a different version? And could
> this be Jay's problem as well?
>
> Kind regards, Karsten.
>
>
>
> On Tuesday 22 June 2004 23:49, John Stone wrote:
> > Dear Jay,
> > What happens if you open a command shell and try running it by hand
> > like this (the quotes are necessary since the filename contains spaces):
> > "c:\program files\vmd-2.7.2\vmach.exe"
> >
> > If you can't run it by hand, then VMD can't run it either.
> >
> > Another possibility is that you're trying to save the results
> > into a directory or filename that contains spaces. The previous
> > revs of the vmdmovie plugin didn't have a solution for a strange
> > problem VideoMach has when executed the normal way, in the new
> > version we've just made a change that'll make this work.
> > In the mean time, make sure that the "working directory"
> > setting in the vmdmovie plugin corresponds to a directory name
> > that doesn't contain spaces. This is only a problem on Windows,
> > the Unix versions of vmdmovie work fine with filenames containing
> > spaces, this is a specific change we've made to please VideoMach on
> > Windows.
> >
> > Let us know if you need more help getting this working.
> >
> > John Stone
> > vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 04:15:27PM -0500, balas002_at_bama.ua.edu wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > I am trying to use the movie maker plugin but it comes up with an
> > > error message saying cannot execute c:\program files\vmd-2.7.2
> > > \vmach.exe . I have videomach and it is installed in the
> > > aforementioned path.
> > >
> > > Jay.
>
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