Non-video videos

[Midnight Dan]

I took several videos of saturn the other night using the BYEOS planetary section.  All the individual jpegs are sitting there in their folders inside the Downloads folder, but they apparently never got assembled into a video by BYEOS.

 

I tried just using the jpegs for stacking in Registax, but it will not open the jpegs and gives me an error #53 (I think). I have no problem opening and viewing the jpegs in other software. Astrostakkert does not seem to support stacking individual jpegs so I can't use that. 

 

Is there some way to convince BYEOS to finish its job and combine the jpegs into a video?

-Dan

[Jerry_K]

Ok, I downloaded VirtualDub and installed it per your instruction, into the BYEOS folder.  While that may help with encoding the video from BYEOS next time, I still don't see how to convert the existing jpegs into .avi.  I ran virtualdub.exe but can't find an option to do so.  I tried drag-and-dropping the jpegs into the window, but no dice.  What's the magic sauce to make this happen?

 

-Dan

Dan, I have installed VirtualDub in BYE Temp/ Download subdirectory and planetary AVI files are now stored in folder specified in Settings. In my case E:/Library/Planetary and all the JPGs are in Pictures/BackyardTEMP/Downloads.

BTW, I have never had a problem stacking JPGs in Reistax6. Actually I prefer to use JPGs and discard the crappy one before giving the good ones to Registax.

Jerry

[astroman133]

I have no problem with Registax or AutoStakkert opening JPG files from BYE.  In fact, I have had intermittent issues with Registax opening the AVI files, so I always feed Registax the JPGs.  For AutoStakkert, I believe that you need to load the JPG files via Windows Drag and Drop.  That is, open AutoStakkert and with Windows Explorer browse to the folder with the JPG files, select them and drag them with the mouse into AutoStakkert.

[s3igell]

Try FFMPEG, VirtualDub, or any of the other JPG-to-AVI Apps.

[admin]

Take a look at this new How-to thread on how to use VirtualDub in BackyardEOS to encode your AVI.  VirtualDub is actually better at encoding AVI than the commercial encoder we are using.

 

Regards,

[Midnight Dan]

Ok, I downloaded VirtualDub and installed it per your instruction, into the BYEOS folder.  While that may help with encoding the video from BYEOS next time, I still don't see how to convert the existing jpegs into .avi.  I ran virtualdub.exe but can't find an option to do so.  I tried drag-and-dropping the jpegs into the window, but no dice.  What's the magic sauce to make this happen?

 

-Dan