Android make animated video from list of images

Question

I want to make animated video from list of images by applying transition animation between two images. I found many similar questions on SO like,

Android Screen capturing or make video from images

Android- How to make video using set of images from sd card?

All similar SO questions suggest to used animation for that, but how can we store that animated images to video file? Is there any Android library support this facility to make video of images?

Answer 1

Android do not support for AWT's BufferedBitmap nor AWTUtil, that is for Java SE. Currently the solution with SequenceEncoder has been integrated into jcodec's Android version. You can use it from package org.jcodec.api.SequenceEncoder.

Here is the solution for generating MP4 file from series of Bitmaps using jcodec:

try {
    File file = this.GetSDPathToFile("", "output.mp4");
    SequenceEncoder encoder = new SequenceEncoder(file);

    // only 5 frames in total
    for (int i = 1; i <= 5; i++) {
        // getting bitmap from drawable path
        int bitmapResId = this.getResources().getIdentifier("image" + i, "drawable", this.getPackageName());
        Bitmap bitmap = this.getBitmapFromResources(this.getResources(), bitmapResId);
        encoder.encodeNativeFrame(this.fromBitmap(bitmap));
    }
    encoder.finish();
} catch (IOException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}

// get full SD path
File GetSDPathToFile(String filePatho, String fileName) {
    File extBaseDir = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory();
    if (filePatho == null || filePatho.length() == 0 || filePatho.charAt(0) != '/')
        filePatho = "/" + filePatho;
    makeDirectory(filePatho);
    File file = new File(extBaseDir.getAbsoluteFile() + filePatho);
    return new File(file.getAbsolutePath() + "/" + fileName);// file;
}

// convert from Bitmap to Picture (jcodec native structure)
public Picture fromBitmap(Bitmap src) {
    Picture dst = Picture.create((int)src.getWidth(), (int)src.getHeight(), ColorSpace.RGB);
    fromBitmap(src, dst);
    return dst;
}

public void fromBitmap(Bitmap src, Picture dst) {
    int[] dstData = dst.getPlaneData(0);
    int[] packed = new int[src.getWidth() * src.getHeight()];

    src.getPixels(packed, 0, src.getWidth(), 0, 0, src.getWidth(), src.getHeight());

    for (int i = 0, srcOff = 0, dstOff = 0; i < src.getHeight(); i++) {
        for (int j = 0; j < src.getWidth(); j++, srcOff++, dstOff += 3) {
            int rgb = packed[srcOff];
            dstData[dstOff]     = (rgb >> 16) & 0xff;
            dstData[dstOff + 1] = (rgb >> 8) & 0xff;
            dstData[dstOff + 2] = rgb & 0xff;
        }
    }
}

In case you need to change the fps, you may customize the SequenceEncoder.