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)

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

2009-09-04 Thread Andrew Straw
Phil Austin wrote: Andrew Straw wrote: I use:: ffmpeg -r 60 -i frame%05d.png -vcodec wmv2 -b 2000k out.avi That's encouraging, thanks. I tried this and produced http://clouds.eos.ubc.ca/~phil/video/out.avi Just to confirm: the two OSX users down the hall get a missing

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

2009-09-03 Thread Andrew Straw
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

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

2009-09-03 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
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::

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

2009-09-03 Thread Phil Austin
Andrew Straw wrote: I use:: ffmpeg -r 60 -i frame%05d.png -vcodec wmv2 -b 2000k out.avi That's encouraging, thanks. I tried this and produced http://clouds.eos.ubc.ca/~phil/video/out.avi Just to confirm: the two OSX users down the hall get a missing components message from quicktime

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

2009-09-03 Thread George Nurser
I have successfully used mencoder -nosound -ovc lavc \ -lavcopts vbitrate=5000:vcodec=mjpeg \ -mf type=png:fps=30 -o moviename.avi mf://\*.png -v I don't think the resulting files are very compressed, but they play well with quicktime. Another option for the mac is of course