[mgp-users 01338] Animation Question for MGP

[David Ronis <ronis@ronispc.chem.mcgill.ca>]

I have a large video that I want to show as part of a mgp
presentation.  It is currently an mpg file, and I've been unable to
get Imagemagik to convert it to mng (I start swapping madly and
ultimately the process is killed because it runs out of memory).  

Instead of using the %anim directive, I tried 

%system "MyScript"

Where MyScript is a bash script that runs mplayer to show the video.   

This works if I'm running mgp with the -U AND -o flags.  However, if I
run mgp fullscreen, I don't see the video, although mplayer is
running. [It's as if the mgp presentation is ontop of the video,
although I'm not sure about this].  

I've tried playing with mplayer options, like -ontop and -fs (fullscreen) but 
only mgp's -o flag seems to help. 

I'd like to run the mgp presentation in full screen mode, of course.

Any suggestions?


David