Re: Fiji: Save as Movie

Posted by Michael Schmid on Jan 23, 2014; 8:49am
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Fiji-Save-as-Movie-tp5006239p5006240.html

On Jan 22, 2014, at 19:14, Knecht, David wrote:

> Is there any reason that the codec options in Save as/Movie are so limited?  It would be nice to be able to use H264 and other codecs for compressing movies.  Thanks-Dave

Hi Dave,

there would be two problems saving movies as H264 in the core of ImageJ:
 - License issues - ImageJ is completely public domain. I am not aware of any H264 implementation in Java compatible with this.
 - Complexity and size - I think we should keep ImageJ nifty and lean (due to the small size, it starts very quickly); an H264 codec would bloat ImageJ a lot.

If someone wants to write a plugin (where these limitations would not apply), based on some java H264 library on the web, it would be welcome!

In the meanwhile, please use a converter like ffmpeg...

Michael

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