[Cialug] ImageMagick and animations?

[Mark Hesseltine]

On 5/2/07, Tom Poe <tompoe at fngi.net> wrote:
> Dave Weis wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 2 May 2007, Tom Poe wrote:
> >> Here's one command to try:
> >> bring up terminal, and change directories to have the command work in
> >> the present directory containing the image files, a sound file
> >> (somefile.ogg) and it will output a file called new5.mpg.  The frames
> >> per second are set as 1 frame divided by the number of images.
> >> mencoder mf://*.jpg -mf w=320:h=240:fps=1/7:type=jpg -audiofile
> >> somefile.ogg -oac lavc -ovc lavc -of mpeg -mpegopts format=vcd -vf
> >> scale=352:240,harddup -srate 44100 -af lavcresample=44100 -lavcopts
> >> vcodec=mpeg1video:keyint=18:vrc_buf_size=327:vrc_minrate=1152:vbitrate=1152:vrc_maxrate=1152:acodec=mp2:abitrate=224
> >>
> >> -ofps 30000/1001 -o new5.mpg
> >
> > That's one command? :-)
> >
> > Is mencoder common on recent distributions?
> >
> > dave
> >
> I am running FC5 and went to Stanford University's Center for Computer
> Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA - URL=
> ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/) and installed their bundled
> audio and video packages).  You can try using whatever package
> installer, e.g., yum, emerge, whatever.  If it's not available that way,
> you can check: http://www.cscs.ch/~mvalle/mencoder/mencoder.html
>
> I think I ended up with mencoder when I installed the mplayer packages.
> Tom
>
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Perhaps you'd want to look into DVD Slideshow to automate some of this
process. I think I used it once before for someone's graduation party,
but it's been long enough that I don't remember specifics.

http://dvd-slideshow.sourceforge.net/wiki/Main_Page

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Mark Hesseltine
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