I produce all my movies in Ogg container + Theora compression. I use
ffmpeg2theora for that, available on all platforms:ffmpeg2theora --nosound
--optimize --width 1024 --height 768 --inputfps=15 --aspect 4:3
png/mov%04d.png -o movie.ogv
2009/9/3 Andrew Straw <straw...@astraw.com>
> I use::
>
> ffmpeg -r 60 -i frame%05d.png -vcodec wmv2 -b 2000k out.avi
>
> And this works well to generate movies that play on Windows, Mac and
> Linux. As a bonus, these movies can be included in Latex/Beamer output
> using the movies15 package and played within the PDF via Adobe Reader on
> Mac and Windows. (I'm sure it's just a matter of time before the linux
> PDF readers can do this, too.) Finally I feel I am near a an end to my
> cross-platform, doesn't-suck presentation-with-movies quest. I only wish
> the movie format required to make this possible was less license and
> patent encumbered...
>
> I have been encoding on Ubuntu Jaunty with libraries from mediabuntu. I
> haven't tested the above using the plain Ubuntu ffmpeg yet.
>
> -Andrew
>
> Philip Austin wrote:
> > This isn't strictly a matplotlib question, but I'm hoping
> > dual mac/linux users can provide some advice on converting png
> > files to quicktime movies using mencoder on Ubuntu or Centos.
> > So far I've found that
> >
> > 1) starting with
> > http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/animation/movie_demo.html
> > using
> >
> > mencoder mf://*.png -mf type=png:w=800:h=600:fps=25\
> > -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4 -oac copy -o output.avi
> >
> > produces an avi file that works with Ubuntu/mplayer, but
> > fails with Windows Media Player.
> >
> > 2) changing the codec based on
> http://pymolwiki.org/index.php/Making_Movies
> >
> > mencoder -mc 0 -noskip -skiplimit 0 -ovc lavc -lavcopts
> > vcodec=msmpeg4v2:vhq "mf://*.png" -mf type=png:fps=18 -o output.avi
> >
> > works with mplayer and windows media player, but won't play
> > on macs (unless they install vlc).
> > When I try to convert the avi file to quicktime using
> >
> >> h264enc -2p -p qt
> >>
> > and accepting all defaults
> > it makes it through both passes, gets to
> > "converting avi file to mp4 container"
> > and exits the "-> Failed!"
> >
> > Any pointers appreciated. I'm open to any linux based
> > solution that produces animations
> > that can be be viewed on all three platforms -- thanks, Phil
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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