[TriLUG] motion, imagemagick, convert, and mpeg2encode (and, ffmpeg)

[Jim Tuttle]

I have imagemagick installed on my debian system and thus I have convert.
Convert however needs mpeg2encode to create mpegs and a 'apt-cache search
mpeg' doesn't shot a hit for mpeg2econde.  Has this software somehow
violated the GPL and been removed?  If I recall it was bundled in past
releases.

What about ffmpeg?  Has anyone used this software to create mpegs from a
group of jpegs?

Greg


My motion install on Ubuntu 6.06 uses ffmpeg (that's the package name)
to do on-the-fly conversion between the jpegs and avi.  The relevant
line in the config file is:

 # Encode movies in real-time (install ffmpeg before enabling)
ffmpeg_cap_new on

Works fine, but you have to play around with the webcam_maxrate and
framerate variables to get them to play nice together.  The symptoms of
not playing nice are videos that play way too fast.

Jim
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