Hallo > 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. MPEG is very common now.
> I started poking around and came across mjpeg tools. That's the toos you will like ;) To be serious, you should take a first look on the mjpeghowto, you find on the mjpeg project page on SF (mjpeg.sf.net) And in the FAQ you find the link to the mjpeg howto. On the project page you find the linke to "all the mjpeg tools doku" you can download that to view the doku offline. > 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. If you don't want to work with DV-Sreams or quicktime files with mjpeg codec you can simply ignore that dependencies. Thats strange that mpeg2enc didn't work. Maybe you can send the error message and the command you tried to run ? > 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 Your track is right. What you have to do depend on where you want to play it back. HW devices like DVD player have much mor format restriction. Than you have for MPEG you play back on you PC. > 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? For explantions about digial video you should also take a look there: http://www.mir.com/DMG/ > Thanks for indulging a newbie. No problem. auf hoffentlich bald, Berni the Chaos of Woodquarter Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.lysator.liu.se/~gz/bernhard ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: The SF.net Donation Program. Do you like what SourceForge.net is doing for the Open Source Community? Make a contribution, and help us add new features and functionality. Click here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Mjpeg-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mjpeg-users
