[Paraview] animation pixelisation

[Sands, Daniel]

I wonder if someone out there has written a DirectShow save plugin?  Then you could select your own codec and avoid the patent issues too. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Berk Geveci [mailto:berk.geveci at kitware.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 10:01 AM
To: Philippe David
Cc: Sands, Daniel; paraview at paraview.org
Subject: Re: [Paraview] animation pixelisation

I believe that we use the MSVC codec on Windows due to patent/license issues. I would recommend saving a set of images and using another tool to generate the movies. I heard from several people that they use
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-berk

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Philippe David<pdavid at scconsultants.com> wrote:
> hello,
> I did not figure that paraview was using internal codecs: on the "save 
> animation" dialog, I did not see any codec selection.
> Should this be defined at paraview installation instead ? I am working 
> on a std Win32 distribution without any plug-in or whatever.
>
> thanks in advance for your help
>
> Philippe DAVID
>
> Daniel Sands a écrit :
>
> What codec is it using?  There are some pretty low quality codecs 
> available for AVI, and even the high quality ones can use low bitrates 
> which would also cause what you're seeing.
> From: Philippe David
> Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 5:52 AM
> To: paraview at paraview.org
> Subject: [Paraview] animation pixelisation Hi, has anyone have 
> encountered Animation Pixellisation ? I am using Paraview 3.4.0 and 
> use animation generation with 1000x800 size.
> The final .avi file produce low quality images with pixelisation.
> paraview= avi=
>
> Any hint is welcomed: thanks in advance
>
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