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# mplayer first brakes down the file into inididual frames    #
# these frames are _not_ suitable for individual viewing      #
# php resizes and patches them together later on              #
# rm-rf removes the original movie file                      #
# the for loop goes through the dir ($1) which contains .ppms #
# image magick is then used to convert from ppm to png        #
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chown -R apache $1
chmod -R 777 $1
mplayer -vo pnm:outdir=$1 $1/$2
#rm -rf /home/photopanorama/*ppm
#rm -rf $1/$2
for a in `ls $1`; do convert $1/$a $1/$a.png; done;
rm -rf $1/*ppm
echo 'done';