How to encode a set of images to a movie?

zero79 · 07-13-2005, 04:06 PM

does anyone know what software i should look at in order to convert a set of image files to a movie. the format can be mpeg or divx or xvid or whatever...it doesn't matter to me. a command-line tool is preferable. i looked into imagemagick, but it appears that it can only convert image files to an x-rendered movie. it can't encode a movie file. thanks for any thoughts.

mykrob · 07-13-2005, 04:11 PM

Take a look at Qdvdauthor. This will allow you to make DVD slideshows from images. Possibly you can just export a video file instead of making a dvd.

madluther · 07-13-2005, 08:31 PM

mencoder can do this

eg
Encode all *.jpg files in the current dir:

mencoder "mf://*.jpg" -mf fps=25 -o output.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4

HTH

Mad.

zero79 · 07-13-2005, 10:20 PM

thanks. i'll give mencoder a shot. i had a gut feeling that that was the way to go. but since there is no free debian package, i thought there may be better way. i'll just install from source.

btw, nice sig madluther

peace.

windowsrefugeeX · 07-14-2005, 09:25 AM

this is gonna sound stupid, but where does one download the sources for mencoder? or do we need 2 install mplayer as well?

mykrob · 07-14-2005, 09:51 AM

i believe mencoder is packaged with Mplayer, assuming you install from source.

On a side note, as long as we have someone knowledgable with mencoder, what would be a command to convert an AVI to MPEG for the purpose of burning a dvd? THe GUI tools i have tried seem to... well... not work, but most likely because i simply dont understand all the options that i have to check or fill in.

THanks,
-myk