AVI/MPEG for visualization over time..

[Dylan Beaudette]

On Thursday 02 December 2004 02:03 pm, you wrote:
> 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

it sure is! I have done it a couple of times with output from
POVRAY(http://169.237.35.250/~dylan/lab_website/dylan/gis/povray/friant1.mpeg)
, and GRASS (http://169.237.35.250/~dylan/solar/beam1.mpg)

...but never with mapserver...
have fun!

Dylan



> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: UMN MapServer Users List
> > [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