On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 13:35, Ben Donohue wrote:
> I'm using an application that creates many jpg images. (motion detection
> software). I've just managed to get it working.
> It creates images into subdirectories like so...
> year/month/day/hour/minute/second.jpg etc.
You're using motion, right?
You may find it easier to work with the images if you use the
"oldlayout" option in the config file, which will put all images in the
one directory.
> The problem I have is somehow stitching all the jpg images together into a
> little movie to view at a later time.
> I suppose I'd have to give it a start directory and get it to traverse down
> dirs to find images, stick them on the end of the movie, then find a later
> directory and add on those pics etc.
As Terry said, mpeg_encode is good for this. I've used it in similar
circumstances - hopefully I'll be able to find the config file tonight.
:-)
Not sure if it's what you're after, but motion has hooks to
automatically use mpeg_encode to create movies of motion events. Check
the documentation.
> Possible also need a short time space between image changes which may be
> configurable.
Look into the "framerate" and "gap" config file parameters for motion.
> I have no idea how to even start at this process so any thoughts would be
> appreciated.
> I've googled but have not found something that would do it so far.
Motion has a very concise manpage. If you installed it from a Mandrake
package, you should also find more documentation in /usr/doc/motion (but
it could be elsewhere).
As for mpeg_encode, google will find the homepage, but I think Terry
covered it fairly well.
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