David Strozzi wrote: > 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 >
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