Hi,
On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, William Day wrote:
> I have been using an effective but awkward combination of ffmpeg and
> named pipes to import compressed video into ImageJ on gnu/linux
>
> mkfifo /tmp/video.raw
> ffmpeg -i video.avi -f rawvideo -pix_fmt gray - > /tmp/video.raw < /dev/null &
>
> then using the ImageJ command 'import raw' to read the 8-bit gray data
> from the named pipe.
>
> This whole process is much faster than converting the compressed avi to
> raw and then importing the converted files. It seems like this would be
> something quite easy to wrap up into a plugin. I was unable to find an
> existing plugin which does this, so I thought I would ask how difficult
> it would be to write this plugin and where to start - is there a plugin
> I could simply modify and recompile?
I have something preliminary since last December, trying to think of ways
how to make it work with plain ImageJ on different platforms.
However, for technical reasons I think I'll have to make this a Fiji-only
plugin: an environment variable has to be set to the path where the native
libraries sit, and this variable has to be set _before_ Java is started.
Ciao,
Dscho
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