Play Motion JPEG 2000 .mj2 lossless video

Matlab or GNU Octave can create lossless videos from image stacks or figure series by either:

• Save PNG image stack, then losslessly convert PNG stack to video
• Save from Matlab directly as lossless JPEG2000 video

This example saves lossless MJPEG2000 .mj2 video plots directly from Matlab VideoWriter.

v = VideoWriter('test.mj2', 'Archival');
v.LosslessCompression = true;
v.FrameRate = 5;  % arbitrary
open(v)

f = figure;
% or axes

pause(0.2)
% let plot initially draw

for i = 1:.05:3;

    line(0:.01:1, (0:.01:1).^i)
    % dummy plot sequence

    v.writeVideo(getframe(f))
end

close(v)

Play Motion JPEG 2000 .mj2 with FFmpeg from the command line (outside of Matlab):

ffplay movie.mj2

GNU Octave video package also has a “VideoWriter” function.