The solution seems to be to use Mencoder (or at least, that seems to be a semi-popular choice). Here’s a link that specifically addresses images-to-movies capabilities in Mencoder. As for rendering text onto the frames before encoding them as part of the video, you can use Java2D’s image manipulation libraries to simply draw text on … Read more
You may use fragmented MP4. A fragmented MP4 file is built a follows: moov [moof mdat]+ The moov box then only contains basic information about the tracks (how many, their type , codec initialization and so on) but no information about the samples in the track. The information about sample locations and sample sizes is … Read more
You need libavcodec and libavformat. The FAQ tells you: 4.1 Are there examples illustrating how to use the FFmpeg libraries, particularly libavcodec and libavformat? Yes. Read the Developers Guide of the FFmpeg documentation. Alternatively, examine the source code for one of the many open source projects that already incorporate FFmpeg at (projects.html). The FFmpeg documentation … Read more
The Miro video converter does a beautiful job and is drag-n-drop. http://www.mirovideoconverter.com/ BTW it’s FREE and also very good for mobile device encoding.