For automatisation purposes I developed a few years ago a Perl script called gmvmpeg that simplifies the generation of MPEG movies from a sequence of visualisation data files in GMV format. Right from the beginning, the script has been able to create movies ``in background`` on (remote) computers, i.e. without the need for X Windows or even an interactive shell. Over the years, the script has been extended to create either MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 format, to run in parallel, to determine the path for every helper application it relys on automatically, in short: to be more user-friendly and foolproof.
This paper is intended to present the current state of development.