how to let user define a name of avi file

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Hi, im making avi file using movie2avi function. im wondering if there is a way to let user choose a name of that avi file...i tried input function but nothing worked so far...Thanks!!
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Matt Kindig
Matt Kindig on 11 Apr 2013
Why didn't input work? Can you post your code?
You also might want to look at uiputfile(), a GUI version of a file choose prompt.

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per isakson
per isakson on 11 Apr 2013
Edited: per isakson on 11 Apr 2013
"... nothing worked so far ..."
There are many ways to let the user provide a filename. This is the simplest I can think of.
>> filespec = input('Please give a filename: ');
Please give a filename: 'c:\temp\my.avi'
>> disp(filespec)
c:\temp\my.avi
>> movie2avi( mov, filespec )
Undefined function or variable 'mov'.
>>
I had not assigned a value to mov.
You must describe your problem in some more detail.
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Jakub
Jakub on 12 Apr 2013
Thanks, its working. This is the part:
filespec = input('Name of avi file:', 's');
movie2avi(handles.F, filespec,'fps',2);
this is part of my code. problem was in name of variable - filespec. i was creating variable filename and all avi files were names filename.avi

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