error when saving animation in avi

ParaView Support
1

Hello,
I know there is already some issues in saving animation with ffmpeg bug i did not see the same error message I have.

I installed paraview@master with spack adding the flag -DPARAVIEW_ENABLE_FFMPEG in my build of paraview.
The installation is based on ffmpeg 6.0 (i tried with 6.1 but there is no changes), and build without error.

However when I want to save some animation in AVI fomat I get this error:

(  29.524s) [paraview        ]vtkSMSaveAnimationProxy:396   WARN| vtkSMSaveAnimationProxy (0x5561b9846da0): The requested resolution '(844, 251)' has been changed to '(844, 248)' to match format specification.
(  29.571s) [paraview        ]vtkSMPropertyHelper.cxx:570   WARN| Failed to locate property: FileName
(  29.572s) [paraview        ]vtkSMPropertyHelper.cxx:367   WARN| Call not supported for the current property type.
(  29.599s) [paraview        ]    vtkFFMPEGWriter.cxx:691    ERR| vtkFFMPEGWriter (0x5561b988b450): Please specify a filename.

I can save in others formats (tried ogv and png) but not in AVI.

My colleague tried with a full manual installation of paraview with the same flag and have the same error.

Do we have forgot something in the build ? Is it a paraview bug ?

Eloïse

2

Looks like it to me. Does this patch help? https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/merge_requests/6590

3

yeah it works ! thanks =)

4

Hello,

I have the same problem however I have no idea how to apply this patch.
Some help would be appreciated.

Kind regards,

Roger

5

Hello,
The patch is merged now, so this should work without any action if your installation has been done recently (1 month ago) :o

Regards,
Eloïse

6

OK. Thx!