PPMcentre ehlp

[ronnierigel]

Hi all

a dumb question--how do you get this program started??
I've downloaded onto an XP laptop.
A ppmcentre.run desktop icon is created--when I press this windows tells me it doesn't know how to open it.

Please make me look stupid and provide me with the answer!!

ron

[matt]

Yep. I've got the same problem.

I've downloaded and got the icon on my desktop but nothing happens when I double click it.

We really do need a basic tutorial for those of us who are a little "challenged" in this area of expertise.

Something written in non-techo lingo

[iceman (Mike)]

ppmcentre is a dos-based application. You need to download the windows exe, and save it to a folder on your harddrive somewhere.

For example, c:\imaging

This is what I do:

When you capture avi's, put them in a folder like "c:\imaging\20060618-jup"

Each avi is created as "jup1.avi", "jup2.avi" etc.

Create BMP folders underneath that, for each of your avi's. So for example, you may capture 10 avi's. I create 10 BMP folders as such:
c:\imaging\20060618-jup\jup1bmp
c:\imaging\20060618-jup\jup2bmp
c:\imaging\20060618-jup\jup3bmp
.. and so on.

I run the avi through virtualdub and save the avi as an image sequence (of BMP's) and save them into their respective BMP directories. So "jup1.avi" gets saved as a set of BMP's to c:\imaging\20060618-jup\jup1bmp.

Then I run ppmcentre on that set of BMP's.

So open up a dos window (start -> run -> "cmd")

cd c:\imaging

ppmcentre [command line options] 20060618-jup/jup1bmp

It then goes through all BMP's in that directory and does its magic. Repeat for each BMP directory.

Hope that helps.

[matt]

You're a good bloke, Mike.

I'm printing that post out right now and gonna give it a try over the next few days.

Will report back on progress (or none!) when i get a chance.

Cheers

[matt]

Originally Posted by iceman

ppmcentre is a dos-based application. You need to download the windows exe, and save it to a folder on your harddrive somewhere.For example, c:\imaging

Hooray!!!!

We got it to work.

However, we found we couldn't get ppmcentre running by just having it "somewhere" in C Drive.

We had to have it in the folder we were running the Command from.

So, to use your example Mike, you would need to have ppmcentre in the C:\imaging folder

Hope that helps others who are equally as DOS challenged

[iceman (Mike)]

You're right Matt, I think you just misinterpreted what I wrote because that's what I meant.. you need to put it somewhere, where you intend to run it from

somewhere.

For example, c:\imaging

You can run it from "anywhere" but you have to set your PATH environment variable to include the directory where ppmcentre exists.. or, put ppmcentre.exe in the c:\windows directory which is already in your path.

[matt]

Mike. I don't think I misinterpreted. In fact, I didn't attempt to interpret at all. I don't have nearly enough knowledge or understanding of the material to be that clever about it.

I simply had to fill in the gaps in the info where it wasn't specifically spelt out for technophobes like myself.

I'm coming from a position of absolutely no knowledge of how to work with DOS.

Sentences like "set your PATH environment variable" may as well be written in ancient hebrew!!!!!!!!!

My post was an attempt to anticipate difficulties others of a similar computer skill level may encounter following your instructions.

Anyway. It's working like a charm. Nice little program.

[asimov (John)]

I think I'd have better luck interpreting the rosetta stone actually!

[ronnierigel]

Thanks everyone!

I've got to the point where ppm scrolls through the images. Now I need to put them into a folder however when I insert -overwrite or-outdir=output to place the aligned files into the directory the program states it doesn't recgnise the commands.

I'm sure its some syntax error but what??

The commands are meant to be in the square brackets right??

Are there meant to be gaps??

regards
ron

[iceman (Mike)]

The commands are meant to be in the square brackets right??

No.

This is literally my command line:

ppmcentre -width=400 -height=400 -overwrite -qestimator -renumber c:/images/blah