To all:
Since the create animated gif command (running java script) was failing
to create a full 240 image gif file on the GOES Image Viewer webpage
https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/goes/fulldisk_band.php?sat=G16&band=EXTENT3&length=240&dim=1
I was forced to hack into my Mozilla Firefox browser cache.
I copied the cache files from the stored cache of my Mozilla Firefox
browser and copied them to a processing folder.
Once there, I used the identify command to locate good jpeg files,
removing all other files, but then I had to remove duplicates as I found
out that some jpegs were repeated.
I then used the grep -a command to search these binary files for the
LABEL, which provides the actual timestamp for sorting the image files
in temporal order. This enabled me to find duplicate images which I
discovered, so I had to remove them too.
After all these operations (having specified 240 image files on the NOAA
webpage) I found out that I had only 237 unique image files, not 240. Oh
well...
Using the ffmpeg command: ffmpeg -framerate 10 -i %3d.jpg -c:v libx264
-r 5 output.mp4 I was able to successfully create an mp4 video of the
GOES-16 Geocolor + GLM overlay images for a 20 hour loop from 0ct 31,
2024 06:26 UTC to Nov 1, 2024 01:51 UTC with a supposed 5 minute delay
between images.
I probably should write all of this up in a bash script for easy linux
processing, so anyone can quickly create their own mp4 video of the GLM
over Geocolor GOES-1(6,8,9) full disk images.
Randall
