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December 11, 2005

Quick slideshow?

For each of the children, we have a bunch of JPEG photos all the same size, taken with the camcorder.

I found some doc on how to convert JPEG to MPEG, and wrote a short conversion script. (All the photos start with "dsc")

#!/bin/bash
for item in `ls ${1}/dsc*.jpg`
do
  convert $item /tmp/`basename ${item} .jpg`.ppm
done

ls /tmp/*.ppm | xargs -n1 cat | ppmtoy4m | mpeg2enc -o mpegfile.m1v

Trouble is, this is one image per frame of the MPEG. At that rate it's just a mess. Is there a trick to slowing it down? Just cat each image a few times?

Posted by Mark at December 11, 2005 05:36 PM

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