[Mjpeg-users] Looking for a starting place

[Andrew Robinson]

First I apologize for the very basic nature of this query. My starting 
point is this. I have a sequence of jpeg images that I would like to 
turn into some kind of digital movie. From what little I know, mpeg 
would seem to be the prefered format because there are players on Linux, 
Mac and Windows. I started poking around and came across mjpeg tools. 
The name sure seems right. I tried installing the rpm on my Red Hat 9 
system. That failed because of dependencies on libdv and quicktime. I 
could not find any rpms for those, but I wasn't sure what I was looking 
for. Then I compiled and installed the source. I read section 4 of the 
How To on how to build a video from still images. I tried the examples 
with mixed success. I was able to build a yuv file (?) but could never 
get mpeg2enc to work.

I have only a vague notion of what I'm doing here. The How To seems to 
seems to tell me a lot about how but not what or why. For example, I 
have a vague notion of what NTSC and PAL are, but not how they affect 
what I'm trying to do. My first question is am I on the right track? The 
second question is is there some site that explains the basics of 
digital video? Would that even help? If I am on the right track, where 
do I go from here?

Thanks for indulging a newbie.

Andrew Robinson



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