From: Axel Kohlmeyer (akohlmey_at_gmail.com)
Date: Fri Feb 01 2013 - 02:46:25 CST

On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 8:53 AM, Payman Pirzadeh <ppirzade_at_ucalgary.ca> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to make movies in vmd 1.9.1 on linux ubuntu 64 bit using my
> trajectory. After reading the trajectory, the plugin send an error message
> of “cannot find ffmpeg” or “cannot find convert”;”do you want to guide the
> path?”. I could not specifically find such scripts in the vmd folder. Do I
> need to install sth? The process of movie making seems very simple and

ffmpeg is an external software package for mpeg video compression.
convert is part of the ImageMagick package and also something that
needs to be installed. while you are at it, you can make certain that
you have the netpbm package installed as well.

axel.

> straight forward in the manual, but I am not sure what’s happening here.
> Your advice is appreciated.
>
> Best,
>
>
>
> Payman

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