On Sat, 2009-07-11 at 09:00 -0400, Mike Jackson wrote: > The only reason I was selecting Quicktime on OS X was that it is > obviously built in and there are no licensing restrictions on any of > the codecs that it supports. > On Windows there is already the wmv plugin which uses native windows APIs. > > On linux I wouldn't really know what to use. Due to licensing issues > I don't think you can directly include source in ParaView/VTK that is > GPL'ed in any way (which GStreamer and FFMPEG are). And the issue with > FFMPEG is that is uses patented algorithms for its codecs in which > royalties have not been paid. See the beginning of this entire thread. >
To my knowledge Theora is free of any formal trouble, and sufficient quality to be proposed for a default encoder for any platform, not? -- Dominik > Mike > > On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 4:18 AM, Michael Wild<them...@gmail.com> wrote: > > How about using GStreamer as an abstraction layer? It can use native > > backends, such as QuickTime and DirectShow. > > > > Michael > > > > On 11. Jul, 2009, at 9:42, Dominik Szczerba wrote: > > > >> On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 20:39 -0400, Mike Jackson wrote: > >>> > >>> Something that has been on my "todo" list for a long time is to use > >>> Quicktime as a back end on at least OS X to create movies. I have just > >>> never had the time to start down that path. This could also be used on > >>> Windows if needed, but using the native windows media is probably > >>> better. At least that way those on OS X can have their choice of legal > >>> codecs to use. Just not sure what to do on the Linux side of things. > >>> > >> > >> ffmpeg please. > >> > >> -- Dominik > >> > >>> Mike > >>> > >>> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Michael Wild<them...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> Will do as soon as I have a patch ready... > >>>> > >>>> Michael > >>>> > >>>> On 10. Jul, 2009, at 17:25, Berk Geveci wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> I agree that it would be nice to add ogg/theora. I am guessing ffmpeg > >>>>> supports it. Would you mind adding a feature request in > >>>>> http://paraview.org/Bug. > >>>>> > >>>>> Thanks, > >>>>> -berk > >>>>> > >>>>> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Michael Wild<them...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Thanks Berk and David for the prompt answer. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Licensing certainly is a good reason. But then, mjpeg produces much > >>>>>> larger > >>>>>> movies. Every frame is a key-frame. How about offering a choice > >>>>>> between > >>>>>> mjpeg and ogg/theora in the export dialog? > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Michael > >>>>>> > >>>>>> On 9. Jul, 2009, at 20:15, David E DeMarle wrote: > >>>>>> > >>>>>>> We had two reasons, licensing, and cross platform playability > >>>>>>> see: > >>>>>>> http://markmail.org/message/2dhkwsnhou3x4bjw > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Dang, I searched the archives, but nothing useful showed up... must > >>>>>> have > >>>>>> used the wrong keywords! > >>>>>> > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> David E DeMarle > >>>>>>> Kitware, Inc. > >>>>>>> R&D Engineer > >>>>>>> 28 Corporate Drive > >>>>>>> Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662 > >>>>>>> Phone: 518-371-3971 x109 > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Michael Wild<them...@gmail.com> > >>>>>>> wrote: > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> Hi all > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> is there a specific reason why the movie encoding was changed from > >>>>>>>> MPEG4 > >>>>>>>> to > >>>>>>>> MJPEG? > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> See: http://www.vtk.org/Bug/view.php?id=8925 > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>> > _______________________________________________ > Powered by www.kitware.com > > Visit other Kitware open-source projects at > http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html > > Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: > http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView > > Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: > http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview > _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview
