Installation
Installing MovingEGG is easy.
MovingEGG automatically tries to create the windows registry key HKEY_CURRNET_USER\SOFTWARE\MovingEGG and stores some setup information there. (If you now, after reading this, wonder whether this may be a security threat to your computer's operating system, be assured that it is not: Creating a windows registry key is an operation that every program installer performs – amongst a couple of other things in some cases, which indeed sometimes may be a security threat, but most software manufacturers tend to maintain silence about what their software really does.)
Upon the first program execution MovingEGG asks you where you want to store its initialization data. You can either accept the default value that MovingEGG suggestes, or you indicate a directory of your choice. In the latter case you can specify a special location that allows you to have different default settings than other users on the computer where you install and run MovingEGG.
If you specify a special directory you have to make sure that this directory does exist, since MovingEGG does not create it for you. Afterwards, you will find a file called MovingEGG.ini in the directory you have specified. Please do not edit its contents directly unless you really know what you're doing.
Now you should see the main (and only) MovingEGG window. Please click on the button 'Configure'.
The reason why there is a two-step installation process is easily explained: The first step is to tell MovingEGG where its initialization file is stored. This must be done with administrator permission. Once this is accomplished, users with less privileges can modify the initialization data. This is to make sure that you do not have to have administrator privileges every time you actually work with MovingEGG.
In the configuration dialog several pieces of information are requested from you:
  • FFMPEG Executable: MovingEGG depends on a helper program called ffmpeg.exe to actually create the avi movie files. Thus, it needs to know where this file is (In case you do not yet have this file, please proceed to the download section to obtain it.). Per default MovingEGG suggests C:\programs\video\ffmpeg.exe as the path name. Please change that value to where ffmpeg.exe is really stored (i.e. where you moved it after downloading it). Please note that you have to include the file name ffmpeg.exe in the path name.
  • Temporary Directory: This is the directory where MovingEGG will store its temporary data (quadrillions of little image files which will be glued together by FFMPEG, resulting in a nice little movie file). Please make sure that the directory you create indeed exists.
  • FFMPEG Video Codec: Ususally there is no need to change this parameter, so it's best to leave it as is.
    If you encounter problems with the codec or you want to change it due to other reasons, please take a look at the FFMPEG documentation to see which codecs are supported by FFMPEG. Afterwards, you should execute ffmpeg.exe -formats in a command shell to show which codecs are available on your operating system. This should give you enough information to decide which value you want to enter in the configuration dialog.
  • FFMPEG Audio Codec: same as FFMPEG Video Codec
Should you encounter any problems during intallation, please contact us.