Smokeview Making Movies

A movie may be made of a Smokeview animation by creating a sequence of still images, one image for each time step and then combining these images into a movie file. A dialog box for creating movies, opened using the Dialogs>Files>Make Movies menu item, is activated if Smokeview finds the public domain program ffmpeg. Versions of ffmpeg for Windows, Linux and Mac platforms may be downloaded from https://www.ffmpeg.org/download.html.

The program ffmplay may also be downloaded which is used as the name suggests to play the movies you create with ffmpeg. After downloading ffmpeg and ffmplay, copy them to a directory that is in your PATH.

ffmpeg generates movies in avi, mp4 and wmv formats. You may also select the frame rate and bit rate to control the quality and size of the generated movie.