- Looking for a way to convert JPEG files into MJPEG video (or AVI?)
- Posted by BDS on February 4th, 2004
I want to take a series of JPEG images and convert them into a MJPEG
video stream.
These are from an automated frame capture card in a PC and in some
cases I have thousands of "frames" in a series.
Does anybody know of an easy way to make this conversion?
I might even be willing to write some code if needed. I see several
MJPEG codecs out there but I have no idea how to send them a series of
images. Can anyone tell me how to interface with a codec?
Thanks,
BDS
- Posted by Bariloche on February 4th, 2004
On 3 Feb 2004 17:05:25 -0800, bsparks_tangent@hotmail.com (BDS) wrote:
and
An idea, just out of my ind: the Avi format is very straightforward,
so for an MJpeg series it would almost only involve CreateFile, then
keep sticking the images to it. You have to write the headers of the
file, etc, but that's peanuts.
- Posted by Lawrence Lin on February 4th, 2004
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, BDS wrote:
I think I should just post one message a week about Slide Show Movie Maker:
http://www.joern-thiemann.de/tools
--
http://www.noderunner.net/~llin/
- Posted by Martin on February 5th, 2004
"Lawrence Lin" <llin@u.washington.edu> wrote in message
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Slideshow Movie Maker is an excellent piece of freeware.
However i find it has 2GB or 4GB output filesize limits - if i remember
correctly it's 2GB but it may be 4GB.
This MAY be a problem with 'thousands of "frames"' and MJPEG compression -
you'd soon reach an output file larger than SSMM can handle.
SSMM can though use any installed codec on your pc so choosing a different
codec would be possible.
Martin.
- Posted by Martin on February 5th, 2004
"Martin" <zedolf@o2.co.uk> wrote in message
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Slideshow Movie Maker FAQ:
2. The video, that i created canīt be played by any video player.
Please check, if you your created AVI is less than 2 GByte. SSMM currently
only supports AVIs with less than 2 GByte.
http://www.joern-thiemann.de/subpage...ssmm/index.htm
I have however produced larger than 2GB videos with SSMM - these were
invalid files - then with Virtual Dub i have re-written the file's header
and saved them without re-encoding.
So there's a possible workaround.
Martin.
- Posted by Eric on February 5th, 2004
Lawrence Lin <llin@u.washington.edu> wrote in message news:<Pine.A41.4.58.0402041440470.27466@dante66.u. washington.edu>...
SSMM impressed me (except for the fact that it only produces AVI
files) for a while but then it just stopped working. It suddenly
started saying that I needed to set a video codec but wouldn't let me
choose one even though it had before. I gave up after sending a
couple of detailed e-mails to the author and never hearing back. I
even did a fresh install on two other machines and had the same thing
happen.
Try it out, since it has to be working for most people.
I bought ProShow Gold <http://www.photodex.com> after that. It
produces crystal clear MPEG2 files ("regular" ProShow tops out at
MPEG1), is quick, and can also create VCD/SVCD disks and autorun
slideshows. Not sure how well it handles "thousands" of images, but
you can download the full version (with watermark) and try it.
Eric
- Posted by Not so quick on March 5th, 2004
It's easy if I understand you post, at least to
get them into avi. Number the files sequentially.
A program named "The Rename" will do that
easily and it's a very handy program. And it's free.
Then open the first frame in VirtualDub, also a free
program. It will treat all of the sequentially numbered
files just like it was an avi or an mpeg. I assume that
the jpegs are the same resolution, size, etc. If not
post again.
good luck : -)
oh, just save the file as an avi from VirtualDub.
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