The VLC player will also play .avi's created from 5.4.1, on all platforms. Alan
> -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Jackson [mailto:mike.jack...@bluequartz.net] > Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2018 5:46 AM > To: Scott, W Alan <wasc...@sandia.gov>; Francesco Poli > <invernom...@paranoici.org>; Ayachit, Utkarsh (External Contacts) > <utkarsh.ayac...@kitware.com> > Cc: ParaView <parav...@paraview.org> > 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. > > -- > Michael Jackson | Owner, President > BlueQuartz Software > [e] mike.jack...@bluequartz.net > [w] www.bluequartz.net <http://www.bluequartz.net> > > > -----Original Message----- > From: ParaView <paraview-boun...@public.kitware.com> on behalf of "Scott, > W Alan via ParaView" <paraview@public.kitware.com> > Reply-To: "Scott, W Alan" <wasc...@sandia.gov> > Date: Tuesday, May 15, 2018 at 9:51 PM > To: Francesco Poli <invernom...@paranoici.org>, "Ayachit, Utkarsh (External > Contacts)" <utkarsh.ayac...@kitware.com> > Cc: ParaView <parav...@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" <invernom...@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! > > > -- > http://www.inventati.org/frx/ > There's not a second to spare! To the laboratory! > ..................................................... Francesco Poli . > GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > Search the list archives at: http://markmail.org/search/?q=ParaView > > Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: > https://public.kitware.com/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 Search the list archives at: http://markmail.org/search/?q=ParaView Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: https://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/paraview
