[Paraview] MJPEG instead of MPEG4 (issue 8925)

Dominik Szczerba dominik at itis.ethz.ch
Sat Jul 11 03:42:45 EDT 2009


On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 20:39 -0400, Mike Jackson wrote:
> Something that has been on my "todo" list for a long time is to use
> Quicktime as a back end on at least OS X to create movies. I have just
> never had the time to start down that path. This could also be used on
> Windows if needed, but using the native windows media is probably
> better. At least that way those on OS X can have their choice of legal
> codecs to use. Just not sure what to do on the Linux side of things.
> 

ffmpeg please.

-- Dominik

> Mike
> 
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Michael Wild<themiwi at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Will do as soon as I have a patch ready...
> >
> > Michael
> >
> > On 10. Jul, 2009, at 17:25, Berk Geveci wrote:
> >
> >> I agree that it would be nice to add ogg/theora. I am guessing ffmpeg
> >> supports it. Would you mind adding a feature request in
> >> http://paraview.org/Bug.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> -berk
> >>
> >> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Michael Wild<themiwi at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Thanks Berk and David for the prompt answer.
> >>>
> >>> Licensing certainly is a good reason. But then, mjpeg produces much
> >>> larger
> >>> movies. Every frame is a key-frame. How about offering a choice between
> >>> mjpeg and ogg/theora in the export dialog?
> >>>
> >>> Michael
> >>>
> >>> On 9. Jul, 2009, at 20:15, David E DeMarle wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> We had two reasons, licensing, and cross platform playability
> >>>> see:
> >>>> http://markmail.org/message/2dhkwsnhou3x4bjw
> >>>
> >>> Dang, I searched the archives, but nothing useful showed up... must have
> >>> used the wrong keywords!
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> David E DeMarle
> >>>> Kitware, Inc.
> >>>> R&D Engineer
> >>>> 28 Corporate Drive
> >>>> Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
> >>>> Phone: 518-371-3971 x109
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Michael Wild<themiwi at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Hi all
> >>>>>
> >>>>> is there a specific reason why the movie encoding was changed from
> >>>>> MPEG4
> >>>>> to
> >>>>> MJPEG?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> See: http://www.vtk.org/Bug/view.php?id=8925
> >>>>>
> >>>
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