Create videos with the Peachy engine

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You can use the Peachy engine to create videos of your product. Note that different operating systems have different requirements to encode videos.

• On Windows, Peachy's reference MP4 encoder (MFYUVToH264.exe) is included and used by default.

• On Ubuntu and MacOS, you must manually install the royalty-free VP8 and VP9 reference encoder vpxenc.

Install the default video encoder on Ubuntu

To install the default video encoder on Ubuntu, follow these steps:

1. In your terminal, enter sudo apt update.

2. Enter sudo apt install vpx-tools.

You can test that the encoder is installed by entering vpxenc into your terminal.

Install the default video encoder on MacOS

To install the default video encoder on MacOS, follow these steps:

1. If you don't have Homebrew installed, install it by following the directions on the Homebrew page.

2. In your terminal, enter brew install libvpx.

3. Enter brew edit libvpx. This command opens the libvpx.rb brew script file in your default text editor.

4. Reopen the brew script file in another text editor of your choice for easier editing.

5. Erase the line --disable-examples and save the file.

6. Back in your terminal, enter brew reinstall --build-from-source libvpx.