How do I save a matlab movie in a format other than .avi?

[Kenneth Ells]

I have used the movie2avi function to save movies, but quicktime can't play avi files. I can't seem to find a way to save movies in a format that quicktime understands, and I'd prefer not to resort to Windows Media Player, etc. Any advice?

[Nathan]

Take a look at the file exchange.

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/309-mpgwrite
http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/15881-mmwrite

Hope that helps.

-Nathan

[TideMan]

Post by Kenneth Ells
I have used the movie2avi function to save movies, but quicktime can't play avi files. I can't seem to find a way to save movies in a format that quicktime understands, and I'd prefer not to resort to Windows Media Player, etc. Any advice?

I use MediaCoder:
http://www.mediacoderhq.com/
to convert .avi files to .wmv files for running in PowerPoint.
Works perfectly and reduces the size of the files from Mb to Kb in
size.

[Wayne King]

Post by Kenneth Ells
I have used the movie2avi function to save movies, but quicktime can't play avi files. I can't seem to find a way to save movies in a format that quicktime understands, and I'd prefer not to resort to Windows Media Player, etc. Any advice?

Do you have access to the Computer Vision System Toolbox in 11a, or prior to 11a, the Video and Image Processing Blockset, or Signal Processing Blockset?

Starting in 10a with those products, you can use a System object to write a .wmv file, which you can read in quicktime with the Windows Media Components for Quicktime.

With VideoWriter in MATLAB, you can write a MPEG 2000. Not sure off the top of my head whether this codec is directly supported in Quicktime.

Wayne