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

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Adam
Adam on 3 Nov 2017
Moved: Walter Roberson on 7 Oct 2025 at 14:34
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');

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David Miller
David Miller on 7 Oct 2025 at 14:26
Moved: Walter Roberson on 7 Oct 2025 at 14:34
MPEG-4 is not supported on Linux even in newer releases.

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