Does HTML5 playback support the .avi format?
Short answer: No. Use WebM or Ogg instead. This article covers just about everything you need to know about the <video> element, including which browsers support which container formats and codecs.
Short answer: No. Use WebM or Ogg instead. This article covers just about everything you need to know about the <video> element, including which browsers support which container formats and codecs.
The solution seems to be to use Mencoder (or at least, that seems to be a semi-popular choice). Here’s a link that specifically addresses images-to-movies capabilities in Mencoder. As for rendering text onto the frames before encoding them as part of the video, you can use Java2D’s image manipulation libraries to simply draw text on … Read more