After a rather rough upgrade from Lucid to natty my source list has been out for weeks. The prospect of going through and finding all the correct replacements, including third parties was just too much.
Today though I stumbled upon this :- http://repogen.simplylinux.ch/
Select all the sources you need, hit generate and bobs your uncle. Just remember to back up your old /etc/apt/sources.list before applying the new one.
My current phone is an Android Samsung Galaxy S (Nexus S). Which comes with a camera capable of some pretty high resolution photos (5 megapixels).
I recently got interested in seeing what this camera can actually do. It will never be up to the standard of DSLR but hey “a bad workman always blames his tools”.
I have seen pretty impressive time lapse videos on the internet. These video are done by taking photos at set intervals over a long period of time and then putting them together as frames to create a movie.
Now I admit, leaving my phone somewhere for a long period of time isn’t ideal but I don’t think for one hour gaps I was really missing much.
In the Android Market there is applications that both take the photos for you and some that even construct the movie as well. Most though have a limited resolution unless you pay or other limitations. I don’t mind paying for apps but I think I can do this for free.
The application I finally found was called Tina Time Lapse [Link] . Before hand though I used some of the free applications. As a kind of test run you could say.
Below are the results of the tests.
Using “Time Lapse” free edition
- As you can see the resolution is highly limited. The video though is constructed on the phone which is nice.
Using Tina Time Lapse
- As you can see the results as a lot better. The main problem is though that you make the actual video on your PC. This of course on Linux is really not a issue.
Copy your images to a folder on your Linux box and then run the following commands.
ls -1tr > files.txt mencoder -nosound -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4 -o test.avi -mf type=jpeg:fps=20 mf://@files.txt
Happy time lapsing!
At long last I have got around to removing that awful landing page.
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