Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

fmw42 wrote:unfortunately it does not say anything about avi or wmf which may or may not be significant.

Best I can suggest is upgrade to a more current version of IM. you are at 6.3.9 and IM is at 6.5.9.1 (so you are about 200 versions behind).

here is what my hosting company said about upgrading.

Hello,
Unfortunatly, we are not able to upgrade image magick on our shared or resellers at this time. We have had problems with memory issues after upgrading and had to downgrade them back.

Curious. More recent versions of ImageMagick do not require any more memory of significance than 6.3.9. Furthermore recent versions of ImageMagick permit the system administrator to set system wide resource limits in the policy.xml file. For example, the administrator can set a policy where any image that consumes more than 2GB of memory is cached to disk. The policy.xml configuration file was created partially to address problems associated with shared hosting.

magick wrote:Curious. More recent versions of ImageMagick do not require any more memory of significance than 6.3.9. Furthermore recent versions of ImageMagick permit the system administrator to set system wide resource limits in the policy.xml file. For example, the administrator can set a policy where any image that consumes more than 2GB of memory is cached to disk. The policy.xml configuration file was created partially to address problems associated with shared hosting.

thanks I will tell my hosting company it is hostgator..

If your hosting company provides a shell and a compiler, you could always download ImageMagick source and build your own instance of ImageMagick.

magick wrote:If your hosting company provides a shell and a compiler, you could always download ImageMagick source and build your own instance of ImageMagick.

thanks I will check

@winracer:

I don't know if you are still around, but
on Windows 7, IM 6.6.0-8, happily creates the still file from the tenth frame. The bad news is: it uses and needs ffmpeg. Most open source software needs ffmpeg for video processing.

snibgo wrote:@winracer:

I don't know if you are still around, but

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convert cat.avi[10] cat.jpg

on Windows 7, IM 6.6.0-8, happily creates the still file from the tenth frame. The bad news is: it uses and needs ffmpeg. Most open source software needs ffmpeg for video processing.

thanks I was tryin gto find a way to do it with out ffmpeg. I have not found away yet.