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Re: [LUG] PI and time lapse photography

 

Yes, good suggestion. My method involved a cron script and wget to
fetch a static jpg off the ip camera and rename it sequentially -
possibly with another script keeping a record of the count in a text
file as it was over such a long period.

On 18 November 2012 20:22, Mark Evans <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> I don't think it matters what sort of camera, provided you can grab
>> a jpg off it at fixed intervals and save them as sequentially
>> named jpgs. (1.jpg 2.jpg 3.jpg etc)
>>
>> To make the actual file, I used ffmpeg to combine all the jpgs
>> together into a video. Lots of examples out there, and a bit of
>> trial and error and you've got your picture.
>
> There is a program called "motion". Whilst originally designed for
> motion detection it's perfectly capable of doing time lapse and
> generating video files automatically.
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