Add Ogg/Theora animation export to ParaView
This issue was created automatically from an original Mantis Issue. Further discussion may take place here.
The vtkFFMPEGWriter has lately (http://www.vtk.org/Bug/view.php?id=8925) been changed to write MJPEG movies. This has the advantage of resolving licensing issues, as MPEG4 is patented. Further, FFMPEG can't be included in the ParaView source code because it contains GPL'ed code.
This is why it would be beneficial for ParaView to offer export to Ogg/Theora. Both, the Ogg container format and the Theora video codec are free of any known patent and the reference implementations are BSD-style licensed. This format is now also integrated into the latest versions of the Firefox and Opera web browsers, and QuickTime and DirectShow components are available.