[Paraview] MPEG not working on OS X

[Mike Jackson]

On 9/4/06 11:39 AM, "Mike Jackson" <mike.jackson at imts.us> wrote:

> 
> 
> So I got everything to compile (FFMPEG and Paraview) and I created a short
> movie. Quicktime doesn't like the file. The movie does not show up in the
> finder. Maybe I am just not using Paraview correctly..
> 
> Is there something special I have to do to make paraview use ffmpeg instead
> of mencode besides compiling ffmpeg into paraview?
> 
> The file is attached as a zip file

Turns out that you need at least some sort of MPEG-2 playback component for
OS X. This is NOT included in the base system install. In my case I happened
to have purchased the Quicktime MPEG-2 playback component from Apple ($20)
and just needed to install the intel version (PPC version came over from an
install).
  So after installing that I could see the movies that Paraview created just
fine.


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Mike Jackson   Senior Research Engineer
Innovative Management & Technology Services