videowriter error: 'The specified profile is not valid.'

Hello,

I am trying to create a video in Matlab from a time series of plots.

On my Mac OSX running Matlab 2016b system the code works fine, however, when I run it in Ubuntu on Matlab Matlab 2017b (on a computing server), I get the following error.

Could someone help?

Thank you!

>> myfun
Error using VideoWriter (line 169)
The specified profile is not valid.

Error in myfun (line 49)
v = VideoWriter([pwd,'/','myfile.mp4'],'MPEG-4');

Answer 1

[David Miller]

MPEG-4 is not supported on Linux even in newer releases.