Handling unsupported animation files (such as MP4, AVI, WMV) through scripting

Hi Team,
I'm exporting animation files using mechanical scripting as below:

animation_export_format = (Ansys.Mechanical.DataModel.Enums.GraphicsAnimationExportFormat.MP4)
settings_720p = Ansys.Mechanical.Graphics.AnimationExportSettings()
settings_720p.Width = 1280
settings_720p.Height = 720
deformation.ExportAnimation(os.path.join(cwd_1,"deformation.mp4"), animation_export_format, settings_720p)

But when I try to display on web browser, animations files are not supporting expect .gif files, when I use web optimized and encode the video, then it was loading in web browser.

Any suggestions here.?

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Comments

Mike.Thompson

What version of Ansys Mechanical are you using? It was not until 25.1 release that .mp4 animations are exported in a web-supported format.

Naveen Kumar Begari

@Mike.Thompson Currently I'm using 2024R2 only

Landon Mitchell Kanner

Hi Naveen. This issue has been resolved starting at 2025R1. In prior versions, the workaround is to convert the .mp4 to use the H.264 codec. This can be done, e.g., using Ansys EnSight:

import ens_utils as eu
eu.convert_movie("D:/wrongly_coded.mp4","D:/correctly_coded.mp4")

Naveen Kumar Begari

@Landon Mitchell Kanner Thanks for your response