Motion.sourceforge.net jpg to mpg

valsus · 12-08-2004, 10:45 PM

Has anyone here used motion.sourceforge.net, or anything that uses a video4linux device or webcam or anything.... and endedup with .jpg's?

See, I have motion, and I use this for my house while I'm away. I would like to have .mpg files, and I have compiled/configured/tested ffmpeg (which works with motion) but still can not get .mpg's

I've tried everythnig and have decided to come about it another way,

Is there a way to take a list of lets say 50 .jpg files and make a .mpg movie out of them.?

Any thoughts on either point of view?

Thank you,
V.

valsus · 12-09-2004, 05:24 PM

I have an update for some more specific information that i am looking for.

I can do the following command to turn .jpgs into .mpg

ffmpeg -f image -img jpeg -i img%d.jpg output.mpg

HOWEVER, it will only process with the %d as being 1 digit in order 0-9

I can't take files named like "0192312-q.jpg" and make them process as well. (my images are named as follows, "12.30.00-1" for frame 1 at 12:30.00

Has anyone come across a solution for this with ffmpeg?

I have tried "cat"ing the .jpg files to the standard output, using it that way, but ffmpeg tells me "Incorrect image filename syntax", it must be %d.

wapcaplet · 12-09-2004, 08:21 PM

mjpegtools comes with a utility 'ppmtoy4m' that can convert PPM-format images into a yuv4mpeg stream, which can be piped into mpeg2enc to create an .mpg from them. Check out the Mjpeg HOWTO for more information.

To convert your images to PPM, you can use ImageMagick. For a directory full of jpegs, something like this:

Code:

for file in *.jpg
do
convert $file -depth 8 $file.ppm
done

If you enter the lines above in your terminal window (one after the other, pressing <enter> at the end of each line) it'll process all the .jpg files in the current directory. You can then use ppmtoy4m on them:

Code:

cat *.ppm | ppmtoy4m | mpeg2enc -o output.mpg

You may need to include other options to ppmtoy4m, such as what framerate to use, how many frames to encode, etc.

paraszt · 02-23-2006, 02:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wapcaplet

mjpegtools comes with a utility 'ppmtoy4m' that can convert PPM-format images into a yuv4mpeg stream .... etc.

I think this method is too complicated for an everyday user. If you are using mplayer (search for it on freshmeat dot net, for example), the movie player for linux, it (usually) comes with a great console-based converter tool called mencoder. Then you can create SVCD movies from any number of jpegs with the next line:

mencoder mf://*.jpg -mf w=640:h=480:fps=25:type=jpg -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4 -oac copy -o output.avi

of course you can tune parameters like width, height (640x480 here), frame per second etc. You can rotate or flip images and so on. Give it a try, it has a great manual, too.

Cheers,

Paraszt