imgs2video

This toolkit is dedicated to continuous generation of timelapse video.

https://github.com/andrey-utkin/imgs2video

For any inquiry, feel free to file a ticket on Github.

How to install

First, install prerequisites. For DEB-based distro, this is:

apt-get install git yasm cmake gcc g++ build-essential libvpx3 libvpx-dev

Then, build the utilities used internally (ffmpeg and ffprobe):

./build.sh

Then, make your config from supplied template:

cp config-sample.i2v config.i2v
vim config.i2v

While editing the config, pay attention to the following:

• You probably want to update BASEPATH setting. This setting is not used by itself by application, but some below settings in config template use it.

• Edit FFMPEG and FFPROBE to point to binaries built at ./build.sh stage. You may try to run with system-provided binaries, but they may be crippled or outdated.

• Uncomment NOCAT=yes if you don't want daily videos concatenation to be performed by daemon (e.g. you want to do it elsewhere).

• Set URL to single-jpeg returning URL of your IP camera.

• If your camera is local and returns the image very fast, you probably want to slow down the retrieval process by setting AFTER_GET_IMAGE_HOOK to something like sleep 5

• As explained in config, uncomment HV_AND_LOG_SYNC=yes and edit that config section accordingly to enable automatic syncing of videos and logs onto another server by means of rsync over SSH. Don't forget to set up passphrase-less SSH login by public key from the local server to the remote one.

When you are done editing config, run the daemon:

./daemon.sh config.i2v

You may want to do it using GNU Screen or Tmux using such a script (implies that cameras files are in /opt/imgs2video, and imgs2video scripts are in /opt/imgs2video/imgs2video):

#!/bin/bash
if [[ $# -ne 1 ]]
then
  echo "Usage: `basename $0` <camera name>"
  exit 1
fi
echo "Launching imgs2video daemon for camera $1"
pushd /opt/imgs2video
screen -d -m -S $1 bash -c "imgs2video/daemon.sh ${1}.i2v; bash -i" &
popd