My supervisor and I are planning to attach a digital photo frame to a poster we are taking to a conference next month, so we can play a movie as one of the figures on the poster. Weve sourced ourselves a nice, light DPF and a battery pack to keep it going throughout the poster session, now I just have to sort out the movie!

The movie we want to present is a bunch of pictures from one of my experiments played in sequence at about 15 FPS. Now, I can do this on my laptop using ImageJ to load the image sequence and save as an AVI, but that AVI wont play back on the photo frame (although it plays fine in Media Player and Totem).

Does anyone have any suggestions for other software to turn a bunch of images into a nice simple AVI movie which will play on a photo frame? Windows or Linux will be fine, Im not picky on this occasion.

cant you just convert that AVI to an avi that will work?

An avi file is mostly just a wrapper file, I expect the problem is the codec used.

You need to find out what the photo frame accepts and make sure the codec you have matches and if not transcode the file to a suitable codec.

I recommend downloading gspot, it is a very good program for analysing video files, will tell you what codec is being used and also if there are any problems.

It could be that the file doesnt have correct headers etc which means a decent player can correct itself of the error whereas the photo frame cant.

agree with Ed, find out what form of AVI you need and convert the one you already have using some uber multi to AVI converter free app.

Thanks guys, I think Ive got it sorted now.

ImageJ litterally just wraps the BMPs up as an AVI, but the frame needs MPEG encoded movies so I used MEncoder to transcode the AVI into MPEG1 format and now it works.

That GSpot program is muchos handy.