[OpenFOAM] Save animation bug in paraFoam on Mac OSX

deinstein · November 11, 2008, 13:09

Hi,

Sorry if this thread exists elsewhere. I did look. I am able to run simulations in OF and view the results in paraFoam. I can view the animations I create on screen. However, when I go to save the animations, I get all black frames. This is on a Mac OSX Leopard. Has anyone encountered this before?

Dan

maruthamuthu_venkatraman · January 27, 2009, 09:08

Hello Daniel Einstein,
If you have fixed the problem, let me know from you... The jpg files are just looking black and no data is stored for making movies.. OpenFoam was run Ubuntu 8.1...
Thanks

mike_jaworski · January 27, 2009, 10:40

You may want to look at the forum thread here. It has a link to a method where you have to edit the ParaView source to disable off screen rendering which, apparently, causes Mac's a problem.

Good luck!
Mike J.

Titus · May 1, 2010, 15:29

I experienced the same: In paraview 3.3.0 that came with OpenFoam 1.5 compiled for mac from the ETH. (http://www.ifdmavt.ethz.ch/education...foam/of-macosx)

I did disable off screen rendering but without effect. The strange thing is that on a PC with RealPlayer the avi's, rendered on the mac, are ok. but not so with Quicktime or RealPlayer on the mac (osx 10.5).

November 11, 2008, 13:09	Save animation bug in paraFoam on Mac OSX	#1
deinstein New Member Daniel Einstein Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 22 Rep Power: 17	Hi, Sorry if this thread exists elsewhere. I did look. I am able to run simulations in OF and view the results in paraFoam. I can view the animations I create on screen. However, when I go to save the animations, I get all black frames. This is on a Mac OSX Leopard. Has anyone encountered this before? Dan

January 27, 2009, 09:08	Hello Daniel Einstein,	#2
maruthamuthu_venkatraman Member Maruthamuthu Venkatraman Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Norway Posts: 80 Rep Power: 17	Hello Daniel Einstein, If you have fixed the problem, let me know from you... The jpg files are just looking black and no data is stored for making movies.. OpenFoam was run Ubuntu 8.1... Thanks

January 27, 2009, 10:40	You may want to look at the fo	#3
mike_jaworski Senior Member Michael Jaworski Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Champaign, IL, USA Posts: 126 Rep Power: 17	You may want to look at the forum thread here. It has a link to a method where you have to edit the ParaView source to disable off screen rendering which, apparently, causes Mac's a problem. Good luck! Mike J.

May 1, 2010, 15:29	On the PC the avi's rendered on the mac are ok !	#4
Titus New Member Titus van den Brink Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: breda netherlands Posts: 17 Rep Power: 16	I experienced the same: In paraview 3.3.0 that came with OpenFoam 1.5 compiled for mac from the ETH. (http://www.ifdmavt.ethz.ch/education...foam/of-macosx) I did disable off screen rendering but without effect. The strange thing is that on a PC with RealPlayer the avi's, rendered on the mac, are ok. but not so with Quicktime or RealPlayer on the mac (osx 10.5).

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