[Motmot] .fmf conversion information

[Andrew Straw]

John Bender wrote:
> At some point, I wrote some fmf readers for Matlab, which would then
> allow you to do arbitrary things to the data (including write to AVI
> using the built-ins). I don't know where that code is currently;
> possibly Andrew does? 

They are still distributed with FlyMovieFormat. (I am in the process of
moving the source code repository to git and github. The new URL is
http://github.com/motmot/flymovieformat/tree/master/matlab . I will make
an announcement to this list when the transition to git and github is
complete.)

I also remember an fmf2avi.py script in the
> subversion repository some time ago, which I think Andrew wrote and
> presumably knows the fate of.

I couldn't distribute that because I wasn't sure of the legal status of
the avi writer. (It looked derived from MATLAB source code.) IMO fmfcat
program is the general answer to the problem by leaving the encoding to
something else. (That does not mean that fmfcat is perfect, by any means.)

-Andrew

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Andrew D. Straw, Ph.D.
California Institute of Technology
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