[FFmpeg-user] Record N RTSP frames and average into 1 jpg? In a loop?

[David Bernat]

Hi Steven, Flashbacks to earlier EE undergraduate days here. I would like
to ask you a few questions about what you need the answer for to best get
at your answer, if I can.
Firstly, the synchronization is presumably because you are running the LEDs
and Camera off the same power source.
The scrolling black bands arise because the read-out rate of the CCD is
near the flicker rate of the LED, and because the read of the CCD takes
time some of the pixels are read
out while the flicker is black. The simplest solution, in the EE context,
and best solution for all sort of circumstances, is simply to disconnect
the power sources or slow the camera rate.
As for the black bands themselves, the phase of the black bands, how long
they take to scroll, can be tuned with the CCD read-out rate.
Using tmixing is essentially achieving the same goal, but the black bands
will persist somewhere or the tmixing will need to be as long as the period
itself, at which point you have a slow
effective frame rate. Having this information, or at least refreshing
myself, is what you want to do still to optimize for N using a bash script
and personal observation?
In which case, you need a bash script to run a for loop to perform the code
you have above? DB

On Sat, Jul 8, 2023 at 4:13 PM Steven Kan <steven at kan.org> wrote:

> I am attempting to capture a time-lapse of corn seeds germinating under an
> LED grow-light, using a Wyze Cam v3 with the beta RTSP firmware.
>
> The problem is that the LEDs are coincidentally synced with the camera,
> resulting in this egregious banding:
>
>  https://www.kan.org/pictures/CornSeedlingstmix500.jpg
>
> It has a period of ~32 seconds at 20 fps.
>
>  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3weqY5wTntY
>
> I can fix this by tmix-ing N frames:
>
> ffmpeg -i CornCam.mp4 -vf tmix=frames=500:weights="1" -vcodec
> h264_videotoolbox out.mp4
>
> and this is a screencap of one frame from out.mp4:
>
>  https://www.kan.org/pictures/CornSeedlingsBanding.jpg
>
> but I want to optimize for N, because if I average in more than the
> optimal number of frames, I’ll be un-doing some of the blending effect.
>
> So I’d like to put this in a bash loop to:
>
> 1) Record N frames from RTSP
> 2) tmix N frames into exactly 1 jpg output
> 3) Save as N.jpg
> 4) Increment N from ~400 to ~500
>
> Then I can scan through all my results and see what value of N looks best,
> and then set up my time lapse for the next 10 days.
>
> Thanks!
>
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