Re: (semi-OT) JPG files -> Movie file

[Jörg Johannes <liste_joerg@gmx.de>]

> well for now I think I have to settle on imagemagick. it can
> convert a bunch of images(even jpeg) to an animated gif. I
> installed ucbmpeg, and also mjpegtools but both immediately
> segfault when processing the first JPG file. Actually I
> was able to get mjpegtools to create a YUV file without
> errors, but once I tried to convert that to MPEG it segfaulted.

I'm not sure, but ucmpeg could be limited in its filesize, try to resize
your files so that they match 4:3 exactly. I think ucmpeg is what gimp
requires for the movie-plugin to wor, so try that out, it will create a
config file that works.

> imagemagick isn't fast, on my 1.3ghz athlon/768MB it takes
> 3 minutes 36 seconds to convert 18 23kb files into a 2.6meg
> animated gif.
> 
> I suppose I could recompile and turn on gif compression to
> see how much it drops in size(yeah I know about the
> LZW patent)..

 you could try mng (which is an animated png). creation is just as slow
as gif creation, and the format is not very well supported by viewer
applications.

> I'll look into mplayer as well, someone mentioned it can
> convert to AVI, ucbmpeg was easy to compile a deb, and
> mjpegtools had a downloadable deb, mplayer looks a tad
> more complicated.

Go to marillat.free.fr, there are apt-gettable mplayer packages ready for
use, what you want is mplayer-k6.

joerg

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