[Chimera-users] error during MPEGM enconding

[Tom Goddard]

The wait commands must list a number of frames e.g. “wait 115”.  The wait command without arguments unfortunately only works with the move / turn / reset motion commands.  The movie recording failed because images were not found.

	Tom

> On Nov 1, 2017, at 4:05 AM, Edoardo D'Imprima  wrote:
> 
> Dear Chimera team,
> 
> I ma trying to record a simple movie using the following command 
> 
> #!/bin/csh -f
> #
> 
> # 
> windowsize 900 1094 
> 
> movie record supersample 4
> 
> volume #0 style solid; wait
> volume #0 planes z,0,0; wait
> volume #0 planes z,0,115; wait
> 
> movie stop
> ###bitrate 5000
> movie encode output my_movie.mp4 quality highest framerate 25 mformat mp4 
> 
> however I keep on getting this error message:
> 
> 
> /Applications/Chimera/Chimera.app/Contents/Resources/bin/ffmpeg -r 25.0 -i /var/folders/2h/r_flycl50hj8klh8w4t1xmw400030f/T/chimovie_Vcz6-%05d.ppm -vf crop=floor(in_w/2)*2:floor(in_h/2)*2:0:0 -y -f mp4 -pix_fmt yuv420p -qscale 1 /Users/user/Desktop/folder/my_movie.mp4
> An error occurred during encoding. See Reply Log for details.
> 
> Error during MPEG encoding:
> -----------------------------
> Exit value:    1
> Error message: 
>   libavutil      52. 48.100 / 52. 48.100
>    libavcodec     55. 39.100 / 55. 39.100
>    libavformat    55. 19.104 / 55. 19.104
>    libavdevice    55.  5.100 / 55.  5.100
>    libavfilter     3. 90.100 /  3. 90.100
>    libswscale      2.  5.101 /  2.  5.101
>    libswresample   0. 17.104 /  0. 17.104
>    libpostproc    52.  3.100 / 52.  3.100
>  [image2 @ 0x7fac00802000] Could find no file with path '/var/folders/2h/r_flycl50hj8klh8w4t1xmw400030f/T/chimovie_Vcz6-%05d.ppm' and index in the range 0-4
>  /var/folders/2h/r_flycl50hj8klh8w4t1xmw400030f/T/chimovie_Vcz6-%05d.ppm: No such file or directory
> 
> Could you please let me know what am I doing wrong? I tried both on my laptop (MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) with OS version 10.11.6 (15G1004)) and our linux terminals (Linux sbterm 3.10.0-514.16.1.el7.x86_64 GNU/Linux)
> 
> It happens on both Chimera 1.12 and Chimera 1.11
> 
> Many thanks in advance,
> 
> Edoardo
> ---------------------------------------------------
> Edoardo D'Imprima
> PhD Student
> Max Planck Institute of Biophysics
> Structural Biology Department
> Max-von-Laue Straße 3
> 60438 Frankfurt am Main
> Germany
> 
> Tel: +49 (0) 69 6303 3015
> 
> 
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