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Luper Rouch
Luper Rouch

Reputation: 9502

How to programmatically create videos?

Is there a freely available library to create a MPEG (or any other simple video format) out of an image sequence ?

It must run on Linux too, and ideally have Python bindings.

Upvotes: 10

Views: 12536

Answers (7)

Ciro Santilli OurBigBook.com
Ciro Santilli OurBigBook.com

Reputation: 383816

ffmpeg minimal runnable C example

I have provided a full runnable example at: How to resize a picture using ffmpeg's sws_scale()?

Upvotes: 0

Thomas Vander Stichele
Thomas Vander Stichele

Reputation: 36549

GStreamer is a popular choice. It's a full multimedia framework much like DirectShow or QuickTime, has the advantage of having legally licensed codecs available, and has excellent Python bindings.

Upvotes: 2

teeks99
teeks99

Reputation: 3642

ffmpeg is a great (open source) program for building all kinds of video, and converting one type of video (a sequence of images in this case) into other types of video.

Usually it is utilized from the command line, but that is really just a wrapper around its internal libraries. It is expressly available to be used from within another program.

There are also python bindings that wrap the c api, though this particular project doesn't seem to be getting the best support (there are probably other projects out there doing the same thing).

There's also this link where someone has used ffmpeg to do something similar to what you're looking for.

Upvotes: 3

Luper Rouch
Luper Rouch

Reputation: 9502

ffmpeg has an API and also python bindings, seems to be the way to go !

Thanks

Upvotes: 0

ugasoft
ugasoft

Reputation: 3812

in c++ OpenCV (open source Computer Vision library from Intel) let you create an AVI file and just push frames inside...

but it's like shooting with a cannon to a fly.

Upvotes: 1

davr
davr

Reputation: 19137

I know there's mencoder (part of the mplayer project), and ffmpeg, which both can do this.

Upvotes: 4

terminus
terminus

Reputation: 14482

Not a library, but mplayer has the ability to encode JPEG sequences to any kind of format. It runs on Linux, Windows, BSD and other platforms and you can write a python script if you want to use it with python.

Upvotes: 0

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