[vtkusers] genarating movies from VTK views

[Andrew Uplinger]

Hi,

I briefly experimented with Windows Media Encoder
(http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/en/wm7/encoder.asp) (only
works on W98, Me, and W2000).   It has a screen capture function- define a
region to capture,  and the encoder will make a movie of that region.  I
have done this with simple vis with vtk, and it works out quite nicely.
Advantage- it's quick, free, and easy.  Disadvantage- complex vis will
overwhelm your computer and the video capture will stop.

Andrew


----- Original Message -----
From: "David Gobbi" <dgobbi at irus.rri.on.ca>
To: "Prabhu Ramachandran" <prabhu at cyberwaveindia.com>
Cc: "VTK users list" <vtkusers at public.kitware.com>
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 11:49 AM
Subject: Re: [vtkusers] genarating movies from VTK views


> On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, Prabhu Ramachandran wrote:
>
> > >>>>> "David" == David Gobbi <dgobbi at irus.rri.on.ca> writes:
> >
> >     David> Hi Oliver, I have a class called vtkWindowVideoSource that
> >     David> will automatically capture n frames/second from any
> >     David> vtkWindow and store the frames in memory.  The frames can
> >     David> be accessed (either one at a time or en masse) from
> >     David> vtkWindowVideoSource output and written to files using
> >     David> vtkPNMWriter.  Then I use an mpeg encoder on the files.
> >     David> The class is still a little buggy, but you can try it out
> >     David> if you want.
> >
> > Why dont you put it up in the contrib section?  I am sure a lot of
> > folks would be interested in something like this.
>
> I will eventually, but like I said, it's still buggy, and I don't have
> a Tcl example program to go with it for regression testing (and we all
> know how much I looove Tcl).  So patience, huh? ;)
>
>  - David
>
>
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