Create MPEG Picture Slideshow in Ubuntu 8.10

Intro: I was surprised to discover just how difficult it was to successfully make a video slideshow in Ubuntu. This is really just a matter of package dependencies not being made explicit.

1. In your terminal, type:
sudo apt-get install imagemagick mjpegtools music123 ffmpeg digikam

Or, if you prefer, install the 5 packages in Synaptic.


(1.5 If you only install digiKam, it will not be able to encode the movie. This is the problem I ran into. digiKam requires music123 and mjpegtools to successfully perform the operations.)

2. Open digiKam (under Applications -> Graphics -> digiKam)

3. Go to Tools -> Create MPEG Slideshow

4. Add any images you want, set the order, etc. You need to specify what you want to save the file as (output file). You can also render audio into the movie.

5. Select "Encode". When you're done, you show see the .mpg file you sent the output to.