Hi, This may be more for general discussion and not a specific mjpeg tools question...
I like to make 'movies' of scientific data generated in matlab. The usual routine is you make a plot, save it as a frame in a movie data type, lather rinse repeat. At the end you encode it to an avi. There are many variants - you could print each plot as a jpeg or ppm, then make it an mpeg, etc. But I really don't want a movie as much as a 'flipbook' - I just want a program that shows the images, say a series of jpeg files, one at a time, at a frame rate I specify, and with a nice enough UI that I can pause, go back, page frame by frame, jump around, and so forth. I'm really not interested in the fancy compression techniques that mpeg uses, which are designed to capture correlations among different frames. I'm happy to have each frame a world unto itself, compressed when I made it a jpeg. (There are fancy enough scientific movies where you do want the full mpeg features, but suppose you don't.) Is there a way with mjpeg tools to make such a 'control file,' that just instructs a viewer to show the follow files, with some frame rate and other data? And are there viewers for such a format? A colleague pointed out these features in quicktime PRO (yes, $$$). You can "open image sequence" from the file menu, and quicktime can make a movie out of a bunch of image files. Even bette, you can save it as an 'external movie,' which is a very small control file like I outlined above, that needs the external jpeg files to actually play. But I don't know if this 'external movie' format is apple-only, if other viewers support it, if it's a 'free' format, etc. So I thought I'd ping this list to see what if free software exists that can do this. Cheers, Dave ------------------------------------------------------- All the advantages of Linux Managed Hosting--Without the Cost and Risk! Fully trained technicians. The highest number of Red Hat certifications in the hosting industry. Fanatical Support. Click to learn more http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid7521&bid$8729&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Mjpeg-users mailing list Mjpeg-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mjpeg-users
