Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

ImageMagick supports both MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 reading and writing. To write an MPEG simply add the mpg or m2v extension to your filename or prefix the filename with mpg: or m2v:. For example:

• convert *.jpg m2v:myvideo

MPEG support does require an external delegate, the mpeg_decode and mpeg_encode programs. These are included with the Windows distribution of ImageMagick, otherwise grab them from ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/delegates.

Is it possible to set the mpeg-2 bit rate.

You can affect the MPEG creation with the -quality , -delay, -ticks-per-scond, and -sampling-factor command line options. You could always edit the source of coders/mpeg.c to adjust the MPEG configuration file.