Ubuntu Manpage: r.out.mpeg - Converts raster map series to MPEG movie.

NAME

       r.out.mpeg  - Converts raster map series to MPEG movie.

KEYWORDS

       raster, export, animation

SYNOPSIS

       r.out.mpeg
       r.out.mpeg --help
       r.out.mpeg      [-c]     view1=name[,name,...]      [view2=name[,name,...]]       [view3=name[,name,...]]
       [view4=name[,name,...]]  output=name  [quality=integer]   [--overwrite]  [--help]  [--verbose]  [--quiet]
       [--ui]

   Flags:
       -c
           Convert on the fly, uses less disk space
           Requires r.out.ppm with stdout option

       --overwrite
           Allow output files to overwrite existing files

       --help
           Print usage summary

       --verbose
           Verbose module output

       --quiet
           Quiet module output

       --ui
           Force launching GUI dialog

   Parameters:
       view1=name[,name,...] [required]
           Name of input raster map(s) for view no.1

       view2=name[,name,...]
           Name of input raster map(s) for view no.2

       view3=name[,name,...]
           Name of input raster map(s) for view no.3

       view4=name[,name,...]
           Name of input raster map(s) for view no.4

       output=name [required]
           Name for output file

       quality=integer
           Quality factor (1 = highest quality, lowest compression)
           Options: 1-5
           Default: 3

DESCRIPTION

r.out.mpeg is a tool for combining a series of GRASS raster maps into a single MPEG-1 (Motion Pictures
Experts Group) format file. MPEG-1 is a "lossy" video compression format, so the quality of each
resulting frame of the animation will be much diminished from the original raster image. The resulting
output file may then be viewed using your favorite mpeg-format viewing program. MPEG-2 and MPEG-4
provide much better quality animations.

The user may define up to four "views", or sub-windows, to animate simultaneously. e.g., View 1 could be
rainfall, View 2 flooded areas, View 3 damage to bridges or levees, View 4 other economic damage, all
animated as a time series. A black border 2 pixels wide is drawn around each view. There is an arbitrary
limit of 400 files per view (400 animation frames). Temporary files are created in the conversion
process, so lack of adequate tmp space could also limit the number of frames you are able to convert.

The environment variable GMPEG_SIZE is checked for a value to use as the dimension, in pixels, of the
longest dimension of the animation image. If GMPEG_SIZE is not set, the animation size defaults to the
rows & columns in the current GRASS region, scaling if necessary to a default minimum size of 200 and
maximum of 500. These size defaults are overridden when using the -c flag (see below). The resolution of
the current GRASS region is maintained, independent of image size. Playback programs have to decode the
compressed data "on-the-fly", therefore smaller dimensioned animations will provide higher frame rates
and smoother animations.

UNIX - style wild cards may be used with the command line version in place of a raster map name, but wild
cards must be quoted.

A quality value of quality=1 will yield higher quality images, but with less compression (larger MPEG
file size). Compression ratios will vary depending on the number of frames in the animation, but an MPEG
produced using quality=5 will usually be about 60% the size of the MPEG produced using quality=1.

Example

       r.out.mpeg view1="rain[1-9]","rain1[0-2]" view2="temp*"

       If the number of files differs for each view, the view with the fewest files will determine the number of
       frames in the animation.

       With -c flag the module converts "on the fly", uses less disk space by using r.out.ppm with stdout option
       to convert frames as needed instead of converting all frames to  ppm  before  encoding.   Only  use  when
       encoding a single view.  Use of this option also overrides any size defaults, using the CURRENTLY DEFINED
       GRASS REGION for the output size. So be careful to set region to a reasonable size prior to encoding.

KNOWN ISSUES

       MPEG  images  must  be  16-pixel  aligned  for  successful  compression,  so if the rows & columns of the
       calculated image size (scaled, with borders added) are not evenly divisible by  16,  a  few  rows/columns
       will  be  cut  off the bottom & right sides of the image. The MPEG format is optimized to recognize image
       MOTION, so abrupt changes from one frame to another will cause a "noisy" encoding.

NOTES

       This program requires the program mpeg_encode (aka ppmtompeg):

       MPEG-1 Video Software Encoder
       (Version 1.3; March 14, 1994)

       Lawrence A. Rowe, Kevin Gong, Ketan Patel, and Dan  Wallach  Computer  Science  Division-EECS,  Univ.  of
       Calif. at Berkeley

       Available from Berkeley: http://biowiki.org/BerkeleyMpegEncoder
       or as part of the netpbm package (ppmtompeg): http://netpbm.sourceforge.net

       Use of the -c flag requires the r.out.ppm GRASS module with the stdout option.

AUTHOR

       Bill Brown, U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratories

       Last changed: $Date: 2015-05-11 02:11:34 +0200 (Mon, 11 May 2015) $

SOURCE CODE

       Available at: r.out.mpeg source code (history)

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