"Bald Eagle" <cre### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> I tried to play this with VLC, and just got a black screen.
> Windows Media Player wouldn't even play it.
>
> However VLC has been acting strangely over the past 2 days.
>
> First, when I opened a sound file, there was no VLC interface on the desktop -
> but it was playing the sound in the background.   I had to kill the process to
> close it.
>
> Then when i tried to play your video, When I closed VLC and tried to delete the
> mp4, Win said that it was still open in VLC - and yep, there was a process still
> open in the background that I had to end.
>
> - BE

I used ffmpeg to encode the video.  Here is the command:

ffmpeg -i Robot1%04d.png -c:v libx265 -pix_fmt yuv420p Robot1.mp4

On windows 10 and 11 I use Media Player, on linux VLC.  Everything works fine.

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