MNG-supporting Miscellaneous Applications

Miscellaneous Applications with MNG Support

These are applications that don't necessarily fit into the browser / viewer / editor / converter / 3D / entertainment / business / scientific categories. All known MNG-supporting applications that don't fit elsewhere are listed below. However, Greg doesn't always hear about new ones right away, so if you don't see something here, also try Gerard Juyn's MNG application pages, particularly these:

As with the PNG-applications pages, links to home WWW sites or to downloadable versions are provided where known. But if a link is broken, check the location and see if the page moved or if an updated version is available (and please tell Greg!). Relevant operating systems are printed in (parenthesized italics).

These are listed alphabetically, more or less:

bootsplash [Stefan Reinauer] (Linux/fbcon) - all versions? read-only; freeware (GPL) with source. (This is a combination of kernel patch and utility suite to load various bootup logos, background images, and animations during Linux bootup.) which isn't updated quite as often.)
cyclo.cgi [Tetsuro "techan" Imai] (Perl) - all versions? write-only? freeware with source. (This is a CGI script that appears to take a list of still PNG images and display them in a slideshow by converting them on the fly to a looping MNG animation. See also the English page, which isn't updated quite as often.)
DingoSearch [SplitCycle Computing] (Win32) - all versions; read-only; free adware. (This is a client-side front end to multiple search engines. It supports PNG and MNG images for the banner ads it shows at the top of its window.)
file-insider.com [Jean-Luc Halleux] (WWW/CGI) - versions since 25 October 2002; read-only; JNG support; text support, including compressed chunks; freeware. (This is a site that will print various information [e.g., dimensions, type, embedded comments] about images that are either uploaded or visible via the Web.)
FileSnoop [Bruno Sonnino] (Win32) - all versions; read-only; JNG support; requires TNGImage (uses libmng, libjpeg, and zlib); non-redistributable freeware (requires free registration, cookies, JavaScript) with source. (This is a utility to display file contents [e.g., in hexadecimal] and print useful information [e.g., image dimensions].)
Gserver [Gábor Szántó] (Win32) - all versions; write-only; freeware. (This is a remote-computing / remote-control application, somewhat similar to PC Anywhere. It allows any PNG- or MNG-supporting web browser to view and control the Windows system running Gserver. Single screenshots are made available as PNG images, and continuously updated views are sent as MNG streams. Gserver is reported to be compatible with MSIE 4.x and 5.x with Jason Summers' MNGPLG [below] and with Netscape 6.01 [but not 6.0] natively.)
MNGcount [SATO "COCKY" Akihiro] (Perl) - all versions; write-only; JNG support; freeware with source. (This is a web-page counter that generates static, multilayer MNG-LC images on the fly. MNGcount Plus produces animations [complex MNGs]. The main page is in Japanese.)
mngcntr.cgi [Sakura-Dzuki (桜月)] (Perl) - all versions; write-only; freeware with source (comments in Japanese). (This is a web-page counter that generates either static, multilayer MNG-LC images or MNG animations on the fly. English-speakers may wish to use Babelfish's translation.)
move.cgi [Tetsuro "techan" Imai] (Perl) - all versions? write-only; freeware with source. (This is a CGI script that takes a pair of equal-sized PNGs and apparently oscillates them either horizontally or vertically by converting them on the fly to a [nested] looping MNG animation. See also the English page, which isn't updated quite as often.)
NetStock [SplitCycle Computing] (Win32) - version 1.54 and later; read-only; free adware. (This is a "simple little stock and mutual fund Internet quote retrieval program." It supports PNG and MNG images for the banner ads it shows at the bottom of its window.)
pngcheck [Alexander Lehmann, Andreas Dilger, Greg Roelofs, and others] (Unix, DOS, OS/2, Win32, Macintosh, Amiga, RISC OS, etc.) - version 1.98-grr5 and later; read-only; JNG support as of version 1.99.1; stand-alone (requires neither libraries nor graphics capability, although can be linked with zlib for enhanced functionality); freeware (MIT/X11) with C source. (This is the official PNG integrity tester and dumper, with MNG/JNG extensions and optional [but highly recommended] zlib support. It is currently better at dumping MNG and JNG info than at checking their conformance. Versions 2.1.0 and later recognize all official MNG, JNG, and PNG chunks, and they include pngsplit and png-fix-IDAT-windowsize [both GPL].)
pngtester.cgi [Tetsuro "techan" Imai] (Perl) - all versions? read-only; JNG support; freeware with source. (This is a CGI script that tests and dumps the contents of PNG, JNG and MNG images. See also the English page, which isn't updated quite as often.)
scroll.cgi [Tetsuro "techan" Imai] (Perl) - all versions? read/write? JNG support; freeware with source. (This is a CGI script that appears to take a list of still images, including PNG and JNG, and convert them on the fly into a scrolling, looping MNG animation. See also the English page, which isn't updated quite as often.)
SmartMorph [MeeSoft] (Win32) - version 1.55(?) and later; read/write; freeware. (This is an image-morphing tool. It takes a start image and an end image and generates the intervening frames.)
x11rec [Satoru Takabayashi] (Unix/X) - all versions; write-only; requires ImageMagick, libpng and zlib; freeware (GPL) with source. (This is a simple Ruby script that uses ImageMagick and some standard X11 utilities to capture a window at some rate and save it as a MNG or GIF animation.)
XVidCap [Rasca Gmelch / Karl H. Beckers] (Unix/X) - version 1.0 and later; write-only; doesn't conform to frozen version of MNG specification (as of version 1.0.9); freeware (GPL) with source. (This is a video-capture application for X; it simply grabs rectangular areas of the display and either saves them as individual frames on disk, as a single [pre-frozen/Draft 43] MNG stream, or as an MPEG video.)

Here are some related MNG pages at this site:

Last modified 14 March 2009.