[vtkusers] Theora movies with VTK?

[Jordi Gutierrez Hermoso]

Jordi Gutierrez Hermoso wrote:
> Octaviz (http://octaviz.sourceforge.net) is a visualisation tool for
> GNU Octave that uses VTK. It would be very handy for Octaviz to be
> able to make movies, which for philosophical reasons should probably
> be in ogg Theora format.
>
> Is there a relatively easy way to do this with VTK and open source tools?

On 31/10/06, Mathieu Malaterre <mathieu.malaterre at kitware.com> wrote:
> I believe you can access anything ffmpeg handle. Doesn't ffmpeg support
> ogg ?
>
> http://www.vtk.org/doc/nightly/html/classvtkFFMPEGWriter.html

Hm. Looks like that class writes .avi containing mpeg. But ffmpeg can
convert to .ogg containing Theora, I think. I'll try it out, and nag
you with further questions if I run into more problems later on. ;-)

- Jordi G. H.