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From: Jack Strangio  <jackstrangio@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: still image stitched from video?
Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2015 03:23:52 GMT
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Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> writes:
> In comp.os.linux.misc, Jack Strangio  <jackstrangio@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> writes:
> >> Let's say you have a clip of video that pans over a landscape. What
> >> would be the easiest way to make a "photo" that consists of the stitched
> >> frames? 
> > You should be able to extract the frames with something like
> >      mplayer -vo jpeg <video filename>
> 
> Yeah, I'm intimately familiar with how to use mplayer for that purpose.
> Generally my command line is closer to:
> 
>    mplayer -ss TIME -endpos TIME -nosound -vo jpeg:outdir=DIRECTORY VIDEO
> 
> 
> > then select every 10th (or whatever) frame, and stitch those together.
> >     convert *.jpg file.pdf
> 
> That's not "stitch"ing. That creates a PDF file with one image per page.
> Stitching actually combines multiple images into a single unified image.
> 
> When I extract JPEGs out of the video files my camera produces, all of
> the lens metadata is lost. 

Very true. I was being lazy with my memory. hugin would do a better job
and it allows some parameters to be played with.

http://hugin.sourceforge.net/tutorials/index.shtml

hugin should be available by selecting it in your package-manager.

Jack
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