lambda_image_to_video

This AWS Lambda function create time-plus video from images.

Overview

This is a Lambda function for creating time-plus video from images. Input image must stored in s3 bucket with key like "yyyy/mm/dd/sequence_id.jpg". Output video type is mp4. The video created by lambda function is placed to bucket with key "yyyy/mm/yyyymmdd.mp4". All image with same key "yyyy/mm/dd", are stored in same video.

MoviePy

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/moviepy MoviePy is a python module for video editing. This download ffmpeg automatically on first MoviePy call.

Installation

AWS Lambda do not have ffmpeg, so we need to include executable binary with lambda function.

sudo yum -y update
sudo yum install -y git
sudo yum -y install gcc-c++

clone numpy library

git clone https://github.com/vitolimandibhrata/aws-lambda-numpy.git

clone repository

git clone https://github.com/sparkgene/lambda_image_to_video

copy numpy and library in to work directory.

cp -R aws-lambda-numpy/lib lambda_image_to_video/
cp -R aws-lambda-numpy/numpy lambda_image_to_video/

download freeimage binary

wget https://github.com/imageio/imageio-binaries/raw/master/freeimage/libfreeimage-3.16.0-linux64.so -O lambda_image_to_video/lib/libfreeimage.so

download ffmpeg binary

wget https://github.com/imageio/imageio-binaries/raw/master/ffmpeg/ffmpeg.linux64 -O lambda_image_to_video/ffmpeg.linux64

install python library

cd lambda_image_to_video
pip install -r requirements.txt -t /path/to/lambda_image_to_video

set bucket name

cd lambda_image_to_video
vi lambda_function.py

image_bucket = "set the input image bucket name"
video_bucket = "set the output video bucket name"

install MoviePy

pip install -r requirements.txt -t ./

compress all files in to zip.

zip -r func.zip . -x *.git*

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/lambda-python-how-to-create-deployment-package.html

Upload to your lambda function

See details createing scheduled lambda function. http://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/getting-started-scheduled-events.html

Caution

Using this scripts on AWS is not free.

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