Generating video from a sequence of images in C#

Question

I have a task of generating video from a sequence of images in my app and while searching for that i found out that FFMPEG is able to do that.Can anyone provide me any tutorial or link which can guide me in right direction.I am a newbiew in this so please help appropriately guys. Will appreciate any sort of help

Solution 1

http://electron.mit.edu/~gsteele/ffmpeg/
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/7388/A-Simple-C-Wrapper-for-the-AviFile-Library
http://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.html -> search for For creating a video from many images:

All the links are from this question on SO

Link related to FFMPEG in .net (From this question);

FFMpeg.NET
FFMpeg-Sharp
FFLib.NET
http://ivolo.mit.edu/post/Convert-Audio-Video-to-Any-Format-using-C.aspx

Other resources
Expression Encoder
VLC

Solution 2

I could not manage to get the above example to work. However I did find another library that works amazingly well once. Try via NuGet "accord.extensions.imaging.io", then I wrote the following little function:

    private void makeAvi(string imageInputfolderName, string outVideoFileName, float fps = 12.0f, string imgSearchPattern = "*.png")
    {   // reads all images in folder 
        VideoWriter w = new VideoWriter(outVideoFileName, 
            new Accord.Extensions.Size(480, 640), fps, true);
        Accord.Extensions.Imaging.ImageDirectoryReader ir = 
            new ImageDirectoryReader(imageInputfolderName, imgSearchPattern);
        while (ir.Position < ir.Length)
        {
            IImage i = ir.Read();
            w.Write(i);
        }
        w.Close();
    }

It reads all images from a folder and makes a video out of them.

If you want to make it nicer you could probably read the image dimensions instead of hard coding, but you got the point.

Solution 3

I bit late but I have made a tutorial on how I solved my similar problem if you did not succeed yet: Image sequence to video stream?