Create a video file from images?

[degeneration]

Hi everybody,

 

I've been working on a movement logger for Second Life using gd. Basically SL sends out avatar position and rotation to our php server which takes an image and the draws icons and info on top to show the positions of users and what they are looking at. Anyway, I want to create a video which shows this information as it can create a lot of images which would be better viewed as a video.

 

So, is there anyway to combine 3600 chronological images into a video of some format?

[premiso]

Hi everybody,

 

I've been working on a movement logger for Second Life using gd. Basically SL sends out avatar position and rotation to our php server which takes an image and the draws icons and info on top to show the positions of users and what they are looking at. Anyway, I want to create a video which shows this information as it can create a lot of images which would be better viewed as a video.

 

So, is there anyway to combine 3600 chronological images into a video of some format?

 

I think going the flash route would be better here. Video creating etc bogs down the server ton. Not sure though, if you must do video look ito ffmpeg, my bet is though Flash would be better, you might even be able to create a .flv dynamically, I do not know. 

[degeneration]

 

I think going the flash route would be better here. Video creating etc bogs down the server ton. Not sure though, if you must do video look ito ffmpeg, my bet is though Flash would be better, you might even be able to create a .flv dynamically, I do not know.

Hmmm... didn't consider flash. At the moment I'm creating them as pngs, but will reduce them to jpegs. Left the script running and had a gig of images in a few hours. I won't be popular with the techies at work.

 

The info is also being stored in a database and the idea was to only create the movements to the users requirements. So they choose the time frame that they want to view then the images are created, then combined. Worse case scenario is I create all the images then combine them in something like Adobe premiere, but that puts my workload up rather than being dynamic and user driven.

 

I'll have a butchers at flash and ffmpeg, but if thats a new module I might be out of luck getting it installed.

 

 

[premiso]

 

I think going the flash route would be better here. Video creating etc bogs down the server ton. Not sure though, if you must do video look ito ffmpeg, my bet is though Flash would be better, you might even be able to create a .flv dynamically, I do not know.

Hmmm... didn't consider flash. At the moment I'm creating them as pngs, but will reduce them to jpegs. Left the script running and had a gig of images in a few hours. I won't be popular with the techies at work.

 

The info is also being stored in a database and the idea was to only create the movements to the users requirements. So they choose the time frame that they want to view then the images are created, then combined. Worse case scenario is I create all the images then combine them in something like Adobe premiere, but that puts my workload up rather than being dynamic and user driven.

 

I'll have a butchers at flash and ffmpeg, but if thats a new module I might be out of luck getting it installed.

 

 

 

ffmpeg is a 3rd party script you would have to install. You would then use exec to run it with the right parameters. But as I said, I have never done this and that was just a shot in the dark of something you can look into and see if it does that.