Encoding video with ffmpeg for COMP715

video-encoding-with-ffmpeg.sh

# first, get ffmpeg
git clone git://source.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git ffmpeg

# next, configure it
cd ffmpeg
./configure --disable-yasm

# build it (-j<# of cores>)
make

# Paraview saved all the images into a directory called
# 3a-animation, like this: 3a.0000.png, 3a.0001.png
# all the way through 3a.0500.png.  
#
# This command takes those images and encodes them, saving
# into a file named 3a.avi
./ffmpeg -f image2 -i ../3a-animation/3a.0%04d.png ../3a.avi

# However, what you get won't be all that good.  Let's try it
# again with a lossless codec
./ffmpeg -i ../3a-animation/3a.%04d.png -vcodec huffyuv ../3a-huffyuv.avi