When exporting videos from Mathematica 10.0.2 on Ubuntu 12.04, I have one video codec to choose from:
Internal`$VideoEncodings
(* {"Uncompressed"} *)
That means exporting 100 frames of a 512x512px grayscale video as an AVI results in an 80 Mb file.
Now, I can subsequently convert the video with FFmpeg and get it down to much, much smaller file sizes. However, is there a way to access more video codecs directly from Mathematica on Ubuntu? I've followed advice such as How to install all existing media codecs? to no avail.