AVI/MPEG for visualization over time..

[Dylan Beaudette]

On Thursday 02 December 2004 12:41 pm, Norman Vine wrote:
> Steve Lehr writes:
> > 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.
>
> There are several programs that can take a directory of consecutively
> numbered images and make an AVI or mpeg
>
> google( "create AVI" ) should yield lots of hits
>
> Norman

I use imagemagick (convert) and mpeg2encode to make mpegs out of PNG or PPM
images on a Linux machine. imagemagick isn't too hard to get a hold of, but
the mpeg2encode program must be compiled fromsource.



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Dylan Beaudette
Soil Science Graduate Group
University of California at Davis