Re: Displaying an animation / "movie"

[Francesco Potorti`]

>Have you tried the 'video' package from Octave-Forge? I've never used
>it, but I'm under the impression that it works with fairly recent
>versions of ffmpeg.

I use Debian, but I see no octave-video package...

>Whenever I need to make animations, I use 'print' to generate a file for
>each frame in the animation. Then I call ffmpeg from the shell to
>generate a video from these files. Not an elegant solution, but it
>works...

Yes, I am writing a function to manage this more generally.  To speed up
my work, would you please tell me what kind of output you choose for
print() and what options you give to ffmpeg?