mp4 animation export from linux?

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hello,
while looking on the forum i found this post mentionning is only in windows ParaView - Saving Videos in pvpython and pvbatch - #2 by nicolas.vuaille
is it planned to be brought to linux at one moment? thanks in advance

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In order to be able to do that, we would need:

  • A cross-platform vtkMP4Writer, the current implementation is Windows specific
  • Shipping a permissive licensed H.264 encoder. openh264 is now a possibility

So it is possible but some work required. It is not very high priority because converting png into mp4 using ffmpeg is trivial (and uses the well established but GPL licensed x264).