AVI/MPEG for visualization over time..

[Mike Davis]

There is a a patch for php that allows you to create animated gif's
from a series of gif images here:

http://hyvatti.iki.fi/~jaakko/sw/

This probably wouldn't work well for 1000 or so images, like you
mentioned.  I am not sure about other image formats or movie formats.



On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 14:52:09 -0500, Steve Lehr <lehrs at erau.edu> wrote:
> Group:
>
> Anyone making movies with Mapserv?  I'd like to string a 1000 or so images
> generated into an AVI, say display a jpeg every N seconds.
>
> I can easily make script in php to generate the images, i'm looking for a
> "library" that allows me to string images together and make a movie type
> format.
>
> Preferrably something free and standard - really hoping for MPEG/AVI.  For
> example the guys who talked at MUM2 about GOMOS might want to look at
> changes in water over a month.  A viewer to string images together would be
> nice.
>
> Anyone using a tool with php or perl to do that?
>
> I'm thinking like something below - I'm not nec married to avi could be some
> other video type; nor am I married to JPEG's below could be png, gif
> something mapserver renderable
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> use AVI;  # fictious and hopeful as are all avi calls below
>
> avi_file = AVI::create("my_first_action_video.avi");
> open(FILE_PIPE, "ls -l width==1 *.jpg |");
> while(<FILE_PIPE>)
> {
>  chomp();
>  avi->add_image($_);
>  avi->show_image_for(2);  # set delay 2 seconds
> }
> close(FILE_PIPE);
> avi->close();
>
> Steven Lehr
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