Bug#892293: paraview: errors when saving animations as AVI files [regression]

[Francesco Poli]

On Sat, 31 Mar 2018 13:10:28 +0200 Francesco Poli wrote:

[...] 
> On Wed, 07 Mar 2018 22:43:06 +0100 Francesco Poli (wintermute) wrote:
> 
[...]
> > In a nutshell, version 5.4.1 fails to save animations as AVI files
> > (while version 5.1.2 was perfectly capable of doing so).
[...]
> I've just re-checked with paraview/5.4.1+dfsg4-2 and I am still unable
> to save animations as AVI files

To work around this regression, one can save the animation as PNG
images and then use ffmpeg to create the AVI video:

  $ ffmpeg -f image2 -framerate 5 -i wave_anim_test.%04d.png \
           -vcodec mjpeg -pix_fmt yuvj422p -qscale 3 wave_anim_test.avi


I am adding this hint to the bug log, so that other users may benefit
from the workaround, while waiting for a proper fix in paraview...



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