[Pkg-scicomp-devel] Bug#496796: [paraview] Saving an animation to .avi fails

[Ondrej Certik]

Package: paraview
Version: 3.2.3-2
Severity: normal

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When I create several .vtk files, paraview allows them to load at once and then one can click the "play" button and it shows the animation.
This works fine. However, when doing "save animation" and then to avi, paraview shows a console with this error:

Codec not found.
ERROR: In /scratch/debian/build-area/paraview-3.2.3/VTK/IO/vtkFFMPEGWriter.cxx, line 451
vtkFFMPEGWriter (0x97460f0): Error initializing video stream.

How can I make paraview to save the animation at least in some codec in Debian sid?

Ondrej

--- System information. ---
Architecture: i386
Kernel:       Linux 2.6.26-1-686

Debian Release: lenny/sid
  500 unstable        ftp.cz.debian.org 

--- Package information. ---
Depends                                   (Version) | Installed
===================================================-+-======================
libavcodec51                  (>= 0.svn20080206-8)  | 0.svn20080206-12
 OR libavcodec-unstripped-51   (>= 0.svn20080206-8) | 
libavformat52                 (>= 0.svn20080206-8)  | 0.svn20080206-12
 OR libavformat-unstripped-52  (>= 0.svn20080206-8) | 
libavutil49                   (>= 0.svn20080206-8)  | 0.svn20080206-12
 OR libavutil-unstripped-49    (>= 0.svn20080206-8) | 
libc6                                    (>= 2.7-1) | 2.7-13
libgcc1                                (>= 1:4.1.1) | 1:4.3.1-9
libgl1-mesa-glx                                     | 7.0.3-5
 OR libgl1                                          | 
libglu1-mesa                                        | 7.0.3-5
 OR libglu1                                         | 
libice6                                (>= 1:1.0.0) | 2:1.0.4-1
libopenmpi1                                         | 1.2.7~rc2-1
libqt4-assistant                         (>= 4.4.0) | 4.4.0-4
libqt4-network                           (>= 4.4.0) | 4.4.0-4
libqt4-xml                               (>= 4.4.0) | 4.4.0-4
libqtcore4                               (>= 4.4.0) | 4.4.0-4
libqtgui4                                (>= 4.4.0) | 4.4.0-4
libreadline5                               (>= 5.2) | 5.2-3
libsm6                                              | 2:1.0.3-2
libstdc++6                               (>= 4.2.1) | 4.3.1-9
libx11-6                                            | 2:1.1.4-2
libxext6                                            | 2:1.0.4-1
libxt6                                              | 1:1.0.5-3
python2.5                                  (>= 2.5) | 2.5.2-11
xlibmesa-gl                                         | 
 OR libgl1                                          |