AVI/MPEG for visualization over time..

[Kralidis,Tom [Burlington]]

This would be really sweet to animate time series information, even in
OGC approaches (i.e. use WMS GetMap format=mpeg [or animated image] with
TIME parameters passed for intervals of data).

..Tom


> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU] On Behalf Of Dylan Beaudette
> Sent: Thursday, 02 December, 2004 17:03
> To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
> Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] AVI/MPEG for visualization 
> over time..
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Dylan Beaudette
> Soil Science Graduate Group
> University of California at Davis
>