I usually do video processing under Windows by the use of AVIsynth + VirtualDub and I am quite happy with that. I have just had a look a IM's video capabilities at http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/video/ and have seen that IM is bascally able to read raw video, i.e. a stream of uncompressed bitmaps.
I think it would be a good idea to teach IM how to read raw video that is fed to it by AVIsynth (I don't know if frame servers exist on other OSs). I am however not sure whether this feature is available by a program that runs in a DOS box... What I am doing at the moment is to extract text from a video, which stands at a certain position, spit it out as a sequence of frame images, turn this into a 'text scan page' by the help of montage.exe and fed this to OCR. (Actually IrfanView's new OCR plugin, which works astonishing well.) The combination of AVIsynth and Montage does it's job quite well, but I would prefer to do this all (except for OCR) in one run by a script besed on IM. Greetings from Münster Wolfgang Hugemann _______________________________________________ Magick-users mailing list [email protected] http://studio.imagemagick.org/mailman/listinfo/magick-users
