[Paraview] Paraview 3.6 compilation with animation in avi format

[Berk Geveci]

If you compile ParaView against ffmpeg and save an avi on Linux or
Mac, you will get a motion jpeg encoded movie. It used to be mpeg4.

-berk

On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 1:00 PM, David Doria <daviddoria at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Berk Geveci <berk.geveci at kitware.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Stephane,
>>
>> There are two issues:
>>
>> 1) license - ffmpeg source has optional dependencies to GPL'ed code.
>> Hence it has GPL'ed code. Even though those are optional and we do not
>> use them, we cannot include them in the ParaView source.
>> 2) patents - ffmpeg has support for patented algorithms that we do not
>> have licenses for. As of ParaView 3.6, we do not depend on any
>> patented algorithms. Including the ffmpeg source code would cause
>> issues even though we do not use its patented algorithms.
>>
>> Because of the issues, we cannot include ffmpeg in the ParaView source.
>>
>> PS: We are now using mjpeg for creating avi files.
>>
>> -berk
>>
>
> Berk,
>
> By "now using", do you mean "starting to work on", or is there some other
> flag that I'm not seeing to enable MJPEG video creation?
>
> Thanks,
>
> David
>
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