How to programmatically create videos?

linux video mpeg
Luper Rouch picture Luper Rouch · Sep 18, 2008 · Viewed 9.3k times · Source

Is there a freely available library to create a MPEG (or any other simple video format) out of an image sequence ?

It must run on Linux too, and ideally have Python bindings.

Answer

davr picture davr · Sep 18, 2008

I know there's mencoder (part of the mplayer project), and ffmpeg, which both can do this.

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