batch command for creating movie

Wed Jun 17 06:19:46 EDT 2009

Hi,

I would recommend using gifsicle (http://www.lcdf.org/gifsicle/)

gifsicle --colors 256 --delay 100 --loop *.gif > anim.gif

Set colors to 256, cycle image every 100 ms and loop the image.
Very simple program.

Regards Mark

Ryo Furue wrote:
>> Ben,
>>
>> | Thank you for shwoing me the possibility. I am still looking at the
>> | web site you show. But I still have difficulity to figure out the
>> | solution. Which binary file that I should download? Or I have to
>> | build the binary from the sources.
>>
>> The command you need is either "convert" or "ffmpeg".
>> I think most Linux distributions offer packages for
>> these utilities because they are really popular.
>> That means, all you have to do is to "download" and
>> "install" appropriate packages.  Which packages you
>> have to install and how to do it depend on which Linux
>> distribution you use.  But I imagine "convert" is
>> contained in one or other "imagemagick" package.
>> "ffmpeg" is probably contained in a "ffmpeg" package.
>>
>> I'm not familiar with ffmpeg.  With imagemagick, you'll
>> typically do something along the lines of
>>
>>   $ convert ss0??.gif  mymovie.gif
>>
>> to generate a GIF animation "mymovie.gif" from
>> a set of shapshots ss001.gif, ss002.gif, ss003.gif,  . . .
>> I hope you get the idea.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ryo
>>
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