
h264 is the most common codec used for video, h265 is newer and better but not as popular yet. "jpg" is both a file format and a method of compression. Version 2.6 is required for proper GIF support, as we use the palettegen functionality. This distinction is important, but often not that clear, e.g. FFmpeg can be installed from the repositories on most Linux systems. The actual magic happens with the codec, which determines how your video and audio data is compressed and decompressed.

Here's how you can create a video from an image seqence with ffmpeg (first google result of "ffmpeg convert image sequence to video" btw ) ).Įdit: avi/mp4/mov etc are containers / file formats. it produces much larger files than h264 or h265 though. maybe this would reduce or prevent any artifacts that mess upp your video. as far as I remember it has no interpolation between keyframes, but just a lot of keyframes, which makes it playable backwards and at different speeds and so on. maybe you could try the HAP codec, it's free, and designed for live visual performances. I suspect the rare nature of your images mess with the usual codecs, assuming you have tried h264 or h265.
