[Paraview] MJPEG instead of MPEG4 (issue 8925)

[Michael Wild]

How about using GStreamer as an abstraction layer? It can use native  
backends, such as QuickTime and DirectShow.

Michael

On 11. Jul, 2009, at 9:42, Dominik Szczerba wrote:

> 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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