Create video from array of pixel values in C++

Question

Does anyone know of a method to save a sequence of pixel values, stored in an array to a video? Currently I\'m using Cimg to visualise a simple n-body simulation, whilst I c

Answer 1

If saving image files is slow, you may have done something wrong. The cons of saving image files is disk space.

To produce video there are many choices:

• produce image sequences, and encode using 3rd party external tools like ffmpeg.
• use video lib, e.g. ffmpeg, libx264, gstreamer, DirectShow, etc.

On linux I strongly recommend libx264 or ffmpeg, they also provide example to save a video file from bitmap sequence.