[GRASS-dev] images2gif.py in grass

Vaclav Petras wenzeslaus at gmail.com
Tue Oct 16 06:47:53 PDT 2012


Hi Soeren,

gif is a nice simple option how to present 'moving images'. It is
widely supported and we don't need any external dependency in case of
using images2gif.py. I would like to see this option even if we were
able to export a real video.

Vaclav

On 16 October 2012 15:42, Sören Gebbert <soerengebbert at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi Anna,
> i would prefer to convert the images in a "real" video format to avoid
> the limitations of GIF.
> Maybe you could try to use PyMedia[1],[2] (well, its pretty old) or
> utilize mencoder[3] to create the videos?
>
> [1] http://pymedia.org
> [2] http://pymedia.org/tut/src/make_video.py.html
> [3] mencoder 'mf://*.png' -mf type=png:fps=10 -ovc lavc -lavcopts
> vcodec=wmv2 -oac copy -o animation.avi
>
> Best regards
> Soeren
>
> 2012/10/16 Anna Kratochvílová <kratochanna at gmail.com>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm currently developing new tool for animation (wxpython-based
>> replacement of wxwidgets-based xganim, coming soon to addons) and I
>> would like to include the possibility to export the animation not only
>> as a sequence of images. It seems to me that the easiest possibility
>> is to use script images2gif.py [1] for creating animated gif, which is
>> under BSD license. Would it be possible to have it in grass?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Anna
>>
>> [1] http://visvis.googlecode.com/hg/vvmovie/images2gif.py
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