ipython notebook animations. So far so bad.

Some problems here.

Attempt to use openshot to create video (failed)

Anyway, install openshot.  Openshot got upset with my Lucid installation codecs when I attempted export; claiming libx264 was not installed.  Some reading:  there are two versions, one closed, one open.  I most likely have the open version which is limited.


$ sudo apt-get install libavcodec-extra-52 libavdevice-extra-52 libavfilter-extra-0 libavformat-extra-52 libavutil-extra-49 libpostproc-extra-51 libswscale-extra-0

Then openshot hangs on export.

Attempt command line encoding with libav-tools (fail to install on Lucid)

Try command line:  I need the libav-tools package, not present in Lucid.  Add a personal package providing it:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kxstudio-team/ppa

$ sudo apt-get update

Still can't install it!  Manually add,

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kxstudio-team/ppa/ubuntu lucid main 

deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/kxstudio-team/ppa/ubuntu lucid main 

to /etc/apt/sources.list and update: $ sudo apt-get update

Still no joy.  Looks like I need to update my installation.

Workaround:

Attempt command line encoding with ffmpeg (Seg fault)

Older linux:  create movie from images with ffmpeg:

$ ffmpeg -qscale 5 -r 20 -b 9600 -i v9_j58_anim???.png v9_j58.mp4

FFmpeg version SVN-r0.5.9-4:0.5.9-0ubuntu0.10.04.3, Copyright (c) 2000-2009 Fabrice Bellard, et al.

  configuration: --extra-version=4:0.5.9-0ubuntu0.10.04.3 --prefix=/usr --enable-avfilter --enable-avfilter-lavf --enable-vdpau --enable-bzlib --enable-libgsm --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libspeex --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-pthreads --enable-zlib --disable-stripping --disable-vhook --enable-runtime-cpudetect --enable-gpl --enable-postproc --enable-swscale --enable-x11grab --enable-libdc1394 --enable-shared --disable-static

  libavutil     49.15. 0 / 49.15. 0

  libavcodec    52.20. 1 / 52.20. 1

  libavformat   52.31. 0 / 52.31. 0

  libavdevice   52. 1. 0 / 52. 1. 0

  libavfilter    0. 4. 0 /  0. 4. 0

  libswscale     0. 7. 1 /  0. 7. 1

  libpostproc   51. 2. 0 / 51. 2. 0

  built on Jan 24 2013 19:42:59, gcc: 4.4.3

Input #0, image2, from 'v9_j58_anim000.png':

  Duration: 00:00:00.05, start: 0.000000, bitrate: N/A

    Stream #0.0: Video: png, rgb24, 1276x934, 20 tbr, 20 tbn, 20 tbc

Segmentation fault

Pity.  Gave up here.#

Attempt with avconv (not in Lucid)

avconv looks simpler and is available on newer Ubuntus.  Try,

$ avconv -i *.png movie.mp4

or don't in Lucid:  it's not available.

Attempt with openmovieeditor

$ sudo apt-get install openmovieeditor

So far so good.  Navigate to the directory containing nothing but images and click render.

Result:  a non-zeros file, that displays a black mplayer screen.  That's a morning lost.

Attempt with gifsicle

I used to use this during the PhD.  It needs gif images so convert all these pngs to gif

Attempt with recordmydesktop

$ sudo apt-get install recordmydesktop

$ recordmydesktop -x 500 -y 250 --width 800 --height 700 --no-sound --delay 10 output.ogv

A good start.  Capture works and mplayer plays the output.  Now to crop.

Best approach (using xdotool, xmacrorec, screengran, python PIL and GIMP)

recordmydesktop worked but had a habit of leaving a white square on the desktop after closing, and

dropped some frames; and the result didn't look so good.  A better approach might be to write a macro

to iterate through the animation frames, saving them.  Crop the result in python and create the animation in GIMP.

Luckily, PafVu will save animations as a series of .png files, leaving only the cropping and creation of the animation.

If a frequency based animation is needed, use the other tools to create a macro to step through the displaced shapes.

imageRoot = '/home/me/screenshots/animSource/'
imageTarget1 = '/home/me/screenshots/animCroppedSolid/'
imageTarget2 = '/home/me/screenshots/animCroppedTrans/'
fontpath = '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu-font-family-0.80/'  # system specific!


a = os.listdir(imageRoot)
a = [i for i in a]
f = reference.logscale(1, 1000, 192)
# It seems that PIL will not load normal fonts like those given away
# by Ubuntu, or those on the system already.  That's damn annoying.
# Seems they have thier own format:  pbm or .pil but I cannot find them.
# No:  truetype fonts do work but the command for use is truetype specific.
font = ImageFont.truetype(fontpath + 'Ubuntu-B.ttf', size=16) # true type
#font = ImageFont.load(fontpath + 'Ubuntu-B.ttf') # true type
# font = ImageFont.truetype("arial.ttf", 15) # truetype

ii = 0
imageTarget = imageTarget1
for i in sorted(a):
    print i, ii, f[int(ii/2)]
    b = Image.open(imageRoot + i)
    c = b.crop((740, 345, 1580, 880)) # use this when happy freqs are correct.
    # c = b  # use this to check f[ii/2] = f
    draw = ImageDraw.Draw(c)
    # draw.line((0,0) + c.size, fill=128) # an example.
    draw.text([300, 10], 'Frequency: %.2f Hz' % f[int(ii/2)], fill=128, font=font)  
    del(draw)
    c.save(imageTarget + i + '.new.png')
    if imageTarget == imageTarget1:
        imageTarget = imageTarget2
    else:
        imageTarget = imageTarget1
    ii += 1