[Paraview] [EXTERNAL] Re: Screenshots to movies

[Scott, W Alan]

The VLC player will also play .avi's created from 5.4.1, on all platforms.

Alan

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> From: Michael Jackson [mailto:mike.jackson at bluequartz.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2018 5:46 AM
> To: Scott, W Alan <wascott at sandia.gov>; Francesco Poli
> <invernomuto at paranoici.org>; Ayachit, Utkarsh (External Contacts)
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> Subject: Re: [Paraview] [EXTERNAL] Re: Screenshots to movies
> 
> If you happen to be on macOS AND you happen to still have a license for
> Quicktime 7 Pro, that will also create a movie from the images. You can export
> in whatever format that Quicktime supports.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ParaView <paraview-bounces at public.kitware.com> on behalf of "Scott,
> W Alan via ParaView" <paraview at public.kitware.com>
> Reply-To: "Scott, W Alan" <wascott at sandia.gov>
> Date: Tuesday, May 15, 2018 at 9:51 PM
> To: Francesco Poli <invernomuto at paranoici.org>, "Ayachit, Utkarsh (External
> Contacts)" <utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com>
> Cc: ParaView <paraview at paraview.org>
> Subject: Re: [Paraview] [EXTERNAL] Re:  Screenshots to movies
> 
>     Francesco,
> 
>     There was a known bug/feature in the .avi writer in ParaView 5.4.1, where it
> wrote a version of .avi that was not compatible with the OS X Quicktime player
> (the OS X default) and the Windows Media player.  This has been corrected in
> ParaView 5.5.0.  (I just tested them on my MacBook.)
> 
>     Alan
> 
> 
>     On 5/15/18, 4:42 PM, "Francesco Poli" <invernomuto at paranoici.org> wrote:
> 
>         On Tue, 15 May 2018 13:11:59 -0400 Utkarsh Ayachit wrote:
> 
>         > ffmeg is your friend on linux. It needs a little figuring things out, but
>         > both resizing images and then converting them to videos is possible.
> 
>         ParaView used to also be able to save animations as MJPEG AVI
>         (.avi) files.
> 
>         Unfortunately, the version currently in Debian GNU/Linux (unstable and
>         testing) seems to have a regression and is unable to save .avi files.
>         See my [bug report](https://bugs.debian.org/892293) on the Debian BTS...
> 
>         My current workaround is:
> 
>          → save animations as PNG images
> 
>          → convert them with
> 
>            $ ffmpeg -f image2 -framerate 5 -i input.%04d.png \
>                     -vcodec mjpeg -pix_fmt yuv420p -q:v 3 output.avi
> 
> 
>         Please note that ParaView used to save .avi files with pixel format
>         yuvj422p (until it stopped doing so, because of the above mentioned
>         regression), but I started to use pixel format yuv420p, to work around
>         a [bug](https://bugs.debian.org/863663) in GStreamer.
>         With this pixel format the animation may be correctly played by
>         GStreamer on GNU/Linux and hence, when embedded in a PDF page, by
>         pdf-presenter-console on GNU/Linux, as well as by Acrobat Reader DC on
>         Windows...
> 
>         If anyone knows any better strategy, comments are welcome!
> 
> 
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