* nate (debian-user@aphroland.org) [021113 19:07]: > nate said: > > > 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). > > > 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. > > 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).. ImageMagick does support MNG, you know. You'll get as good (if not better) compression, for Free. =) good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- http://www.debian.org/
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