ffmpeg and ImageMagick on Scientific Linux 6.1 x86-64

To create a movie from images, “convert” and “ffmpeg” would be often used. “convert” is useful to create GIF animations while “ffmpeg” may be used for wide range of applications.

1. Installation

Download rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm from http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/

# rpm -Uhv rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm

# yum update  ### I saw some errors and I ignored them.

# yum install ffmpeg

For ImageMagick (convert)

#  yum install ImageMagick

2. convert

Suppose that there are PNG files like img_000001.png, img_000002.png, …

convert -delay 30 -loop 0 *.png movie.gif