# AVIWriter on Ubuntu

**URL:** https://discourse.vtk.org/t/aviwriter-on-ubuntu/3183
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [April 30, 2020, 8:06am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/aviwriter-on-ubuntu/3183 "2020-04-30T08:06:03Z")
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### Author: ![FabianSchuetze](https://discourse.vtk.org/user_avatar/discourse.vtk.org/fabianschuetze/32/1703_2.png) [@FabianSchuetze](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/FabianSchuetze)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2020, 8:06am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/aviwriter-on-ubuntu/3183/1 "2020-04-30T08:06:03Z")

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I would like to use the `VTKAVIWriter.h` on Ubuntu but do unfortunately not know how to do that.

I indeed find the header in the source files but its not among the installed files after compilation. I looked for compile options to enable the AVIWriter with cmake, but no options seems directly related to me.

Does somebody have an idea how to enable the AVIWriter on Linux?

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### Author: ![ben.boeckel](https://discourse.vtk.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@ben.boeckel](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/ben.boeckel)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2020, 2:51pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/aviwriter-on-ubuntu/3183/2 "2020-04-30T14:51:38Z")

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That filter needs FFMPEG support to be enabled. You’ll have to recompile VTK with FFMPEG support to get it.