[Chimera-users] Question about avi files in chimera

[Tom Goddard]

Hi Jaap,

  The AVI files produced by Chimera movie recorder use the MSMPEG-4v2 
(Microsoft MPEG4 version 2) video codec and the encoding is done by the 
open source ffmpeg program.  The file size depends on the movie recorder 
"bit rate" setting (default 2000 Kbits/sec = 250 Kbytes/sec = 15 
Mbytes/min).  Changing this setting allows you to trade off file size 
versus image quality.

    
http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/ContributedSoftware/recorder/recorder.html

  Tom

Jaap Brink wrote:
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> Hi Tom,
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> I was wondering given the size difference in avi files that chimera 
> generates versus other program (Video Edit Magic for instance), which 
> video codec is being used? I searched the list of embedded software 
> packages in chimera and found the library of libavcodecs.
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> Thanks in advance,
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> Jaap
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