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Images to Movie freeze

Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 7:07 pm
by generalsu
Tried to convert over 100,000 jpegs into a movie with Yawcam and it got stuck at "writing movie...". Any ideas?

Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2012 10:17 pm
by memoric
100K images?! Well yes, I have an idea of what might be the problem there... :P
Try making e.g. 5 videos with 20K images each.

Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2012 12:26 am
by generalsu
memoric wrote:100K images?! Well yes, I have an idea of what might be the problem there... :P
Try making e.g. 5 videos with 20K images each.
Why can't I just make one movie instead of splitting it into 5 movies? What sort of limitation is this?

Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2012 9:53 am
by memoric
I don't really know if that's the problem (the huge amount of images), that
was just a guess. I'm only suggesting to try with fewer images & if everything
works ok then it must be a memory problem or something. Btw, did you give
yawcam enough time to work? 100K images would take a fairly good amount
of time to be converted, especially on an older computer.

Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2012 12:19 pm
by generalsu
memoric wrote:I don't really know if that's the problem (the huge amount of images), that
was just a guess. I'm only suggesting to try with fewer images & if everything
works ok then it must be a memory problem or something. Btw, did you give
yawcam enough time to work? 100K images would take a fairly good amount
of time to be converted, especially on an older computer.
I have a 2011 Macbook Pro with 8GB of RAM. I gave Yawcam 24 hours to convert the 100K images, but it's just stuck there. I don't think it's a memory problem. I think the issue is with Yawcam and Java.

Yes, I tried converting with few images. The max number of images Yawcam is willing to work with is about 15K, which is completely inadequate, considering I use Yawcam for 24/7 monitoring of my front gate. I think Yawcam should fix this flaw.

Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2012 12:29 pm
by generalsu
I tried even using a 64 bit JRE with yawcam, and it doesn't work. It won't even compile a 2.5GB video.

Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2012 5:03 am
by generalsu
Can the creator of yawcam, please respond?

Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2012 11:22 am
by generalsu
Can anyone help?

Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2012 2:21 am
by generalsu
image retention anyone?