MakeMJPEG

I have written a new small and in the moment really useless application called MakeMJPEG. MakeMJPEG is simply creating MJPEG movies in the format of the stream variant.

MakeMJPEG needs the frame data of which the movie will be created delivered by other applications. It makes usage of a homebrewn protocol of Wimp messages to do so. The protocol is described inside the help.

The generated movie can be converted into other movie formats e.g. by using FFMPEG.

MakeMJPEG is quite useless in the moment as there has been no application released yet which supports the protocol to deliver the frames.

However this will change during the next days ;-).

MakeMJPEG can be downloaded from my homepage

http://thomas-milius-stade.dnshome.de/indexE.htm

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or directly from

http://thomas-milius-stade.dnshome.de/Download/Freeware/MakeMJPEG.zip

Betatesters had already ideas for improvements yesterday evening which will be implemented in the next version.

Read from sequentially numbered files?

Might also be an interesting thing to play with for my old IP camera.
It claims to output MJPEG, but nothing other than a browser supports it. Pulling the stream directly, it turns out that it’s a MIME header followed by a JPEG, then a MIME header followed by a JPEG, rinse and repeat.

Read from sequentially numbered files?

Not in the moment. This will be added next.

Old camera

This is exactly the format which MakeMJPEG generates. You can convert it easily into formats like MPEG2/MP4 by using FFMPEG.

The motion stream files are quite big but are having the advantage that you can cut them or extract JPEG pictures out of them using a simple texteditor.

The second part of this post should be better here ;-)

Not in the moment. This will be added next.

I have updated MakeMJPEG now to version 0.02.

Links for download are as above.

Changes:

- Frames per second default if not determined elsewhere
- Ability to process folders with Sprites (16M Colours)/JPEGs files
- JPEG data can be passed by Wimp message protocol
- Improved error messages
- Improved multitasking
- Message_MovieCreation_By_Directory added
- MakeMJPEG command added
- Setting of file type of the movie file

So MakeMJPEG can be now used also stand alone ;-).