[Chimera-users] error during MPEGM enconding

Edoardo D'Imprima eddimpri at biophys.mpg.de
Thu Nov 2 08:50:31 PDT 2017


Thanks a lot, that solved my problem!

Edoardo
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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



> On 01 Nov 2017, at 20:38, Tom Goddard <goddard at sonic.net> wrote:
> 
> 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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