What? He's presenting us with a Perl script that does not give him the desired results. Yes, the solution has nothing to do with Perl, but he probably didn't know that initially, especially since he didn't check if the movie actually worked. If you are going to downvote him, downvote him because he apparently made no effort to properly troubleshoot his problem.

Also, --Louis_Wu and --Enlil for approving and front-paging it, respectively.

Agreed. When no one answers a question right way, it doesn't mean that the question must be good and thus worthy of the front page.