Make movie of JPEG images - how?

**Muffe** · 03-26-2006

I have an webcam (Creative Quickcam Pro 4000) and use a linux box to upload the images to the net every minute.

What I want is to store all the images from the last day (~1440 images) and make a movie of the images every hour. I have already made a script that saves all the images in one folder and remove all images older than 24 hours.

How do I convert this images to a movie? I guess it exist a few guides on the topic, but I can't find any... Thanks.

**scientica** · 03-26-2006

You can use the "convert" program from ImageMagik, it should be as easy as something like:

Code:

convert *jpg mymovie.mpg

there should be more options avalible, and they're probably documented in the man pages ("man convert").

HTH

**nystjoha** · 05-31-2006

If you run into trouble with the convert program and get error messages like "can not find mpeg2encode" or something similar, then check out
http://www.stillhq.com/jpeg2mpeg/000002.html
that helped me a lot

**exvagabond** · 11-28-2009

I have found that if there are a lot of images to make into a movie, the command

Code:

convert *.jpg movie.mpg

Does not work well at all. Here is an alternative using mencoder. Just substitute the variables with what you are using.

Code:

mencoder mf://$PIC_DIR/\*.jpg -mf w=$WIDTH:h=$HEIGHT:fps=$FPS:type=jpg -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4 -oac copy -o $DEST_VIDEO

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follow up on the convert tip..

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