[Paraview] Question about avi output

Ken Martin ken.martin at kitware.com
Thu Jan 27 10:36:37 EST 2005


> I see in the last version, you add 2 files movies outputs : mp2 and avi.
> First I use the mp2 and when I try to reload this files in application
> which read mp2 files. it gives me an file format error.

Sounds like a bad mp2 player. WindowsMediaPlayer with a mpeg2 codec works
fine for me.

> Second I try to use the avi output. And I have this error message :
> "There was a VTK Error in file: C: martink ParaView ParaView18 GUI Client
> vtkAVIWriter.cxx (139)
>  Unable to compress C:/TEMP/test.avi" in the Paraview Error log window

This could be because of a recent change in Intel's licensing of their
indeo5 codec. We have since switched to a different codec for AVI which will
be in 1.8.4

Ken




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