imageTroubleShooting.txt

# Here i describe how to make a video from these images

# This is how i describe to make the video from png files.
# you must already be in the directory

cd growPics/

# Show me how many images there are
ls -1 | wc -l

# AVI
ffmpeg -r 100 -pattern_type glob -i '*.png' -c:v libx264 -crf 25 out.avi

# MP4
ffmpeg -pattern_type glob -i '*.png' -s 1296x972 -c:v libx264 -vf fps=200 -pix_fmt yuv420p out.mp4

# Now transfer this to my computer using
# follow this to get ssh running https://jeetblogs.org/post/sshing-into-a-windows-wsl-linux-subsystem/

# from pi to labtop, on pi
scp -P 2222 /home/pi/Documents/autoGrow/growPics/out.avi leeleavitt@172.17.80.100/mnt/c/Users/leele/Desktop

# From pi to laptop
scp pi@192.168.1.184:/home/pi/Documents/autoGrow/growPics/out.avi /mnt/c/Users/leele/Desktop/

#after a half day i am taking up half a gb of size. This is not sustainable. thus i need to
# reisize thes to be half the resolution 133M

# This is how it did it for me using imagemagick
for f in `find . -name "*.png"`
do 
    convert $f -resize 50% $f
done

# Ubuntu finding image info
identify image.png

#Ubuntu find folder size
du -hs /path/to/directory



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#I need to Rotate all images in the timeLapse 2 directory

cd growPics/timeLapse2

for f in `find . -name "*.png"`
do 
    convert $f -rotate 180 $f
done