On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 04:04, Michael Waters wrote: > On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 00:39 -0800, nate wrote: > > I am in the process of learning perl, one of my first "real" scripts > > is a script that goes to weather.com and grabs the current temp > > and humidity and the radar report for a zip code so I can graph > > it in mrtg(http://mrtg.aphroland.org/temperature/). I was wondering > > if there is any way to merge multiple .jpg files to form a sort of > > movie/animation? I think it would be cool to save all the data from > > like the past 500 retrievals(so 500 .JPGs) and make a movie so I > > could see the weather patterns(according to radar) in motion. > > > > I coulda swore i've seen software to do this in the past, but > > looking at freshmeat I couldn't find anything. and running > > a couple searches in apt-cache(i'm on woody) doesn't turn > > up much either. > > > > perhaps something to convert to motion jpeg? or mpeg? or avi? > > (would prefer mpeg-1 due to it's portability but i'll take > > anything). > > Hi, I've only tried something like this a few times but mencoder which > comes with mplayer can do this. If you have a bunch of jpgs in a dir > you could do `mencoder \*.jpg -mf on:fps=3 -o output.avi -ovc lavc` > and it will make a video of it. i'm not absolutely sure but I think > mencoder can output only to an avi container, however it can contain > video in mjpeg, mpeg1, or avi. Come to think of it, isn't there a filter in The GIMP that is meant for just this sort of thing, or is it restricted to something the is already video? I've just seen it in the menu, and haven't used it to be certain... -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: kahnt@hosehead.dyndns.org
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