Re: [Matplotlib-users] making quicktime animations from linux -- summary

2009-09-05 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
Thats good information to have gathered! It sure will be usefull. Have you look into the new html5's video tag? You can directly embed ogg in a page, without flash or any other plugin. Firefox 3.5 supports that, I think Safari would work too. See this page for information (and look up the source) h

Re: [Matplotlib-users] making quicktime animations from linux -- summary

2009-09-04 Thread Jouni K . Seppänen
Phil Austin writes: > http://clouds.eos.ubc.ca/~phil/video/samples/movie.ogv > size: 0.33 Mbytes (!) > note: we followed the install instructions at > http://www.theora.org/downloads/ >but Safari didn't recognize the ogv suffix, and didn't >offer to associate it with a player Yo

Re: [Matplotlib-users] making quicktime animations from linux -- summary

2009-09-04 Thread Phil Austin
Thanks for all the suggestions, for future reference here's a summary of my results producing various kinds of quicktime compatible videos from matplotlib. I used Ubuntu Jaunty and had the medibuntu codecs installed. The target audience is undergraduates, so straightforward is good. Executive sum