[MPlayer-users] Re: Video Codec Question

[Jonathan Rogers]

rcooley wrote:
> I looked into it not too long ago, and essentially no programs available 
> support doing anything more than cat'ing all the PNGs together, changing 
> the header, and naming it .mng.  Since far more apps support PNG than 
> MNG, it's almost certainly better to stick with PNG until long in the 
> future, when better programs come out.  I look forward too it, but I 
> don't think it'll happen for quite a long time.

I feared as much. It sounds like Andrew's best bet is to stick 
with individual PNG files, but use a tool that preserves the 
alpha channel. I don't see why it should be difficult to deal 
with a large number of files, though it may not be as efficient 
as single file containers. That's what directories are for. Of 
course, some filesystems don't scale well to large directories. 
ReiserFS, which I have been using for all my main filesystems for 
a year or two, has no trouble with many files in a directory. I 
think several other of the advanced Linux filesystems deal with 
large directories efficiently, like maybe XFS.

Jonathan Rogers