# mp4 animation export from linux?

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/mp4-animation-export-from-linux/16578
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [May 7, 2025, 5:37am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/mp4-animation-export-from-linux/16578 "2025-05-07T05:37:27Z")
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### Author: ![otaolafr](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/otaolafr/32/3595_2.png) [@otaolafr](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/otaolafr)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2025, 5:37am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/mp4-animation-export-from-linux/16578/1 "2025-05-07T05:37:28Z")

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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](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-saving-videos-in-pvpython-and-pvbatch/10190/2)  
is it planned to be brought to linux at one moment? thanks in advance

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### Author: ![mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/mwestphal/32/17_2.png) [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2025, 7:58am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/mp4-animation-export-from-linux/16578/2 "2025-05-07T07:58:58Z")

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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).