<chapter id="mpegencoder">
<chapterinfo>

<title
>Codificador MPEG</title>

<authorgroup>
<author
><firstname
>Gilles</firstname
> <surname
>Caulier</surname
> <affiliation
> <address
><email
>caulier dot gilles at free.fr</email
></address>
</affiliation>
</author>
</authorgroup
> <date
>2004-06-20</date
> <releaseinfo
>1.00.00</releaseinfo
> <abstract
> <para
>The Kipi MPEG Encoder plugin is a tool for to convert a list of images like a MPEG file. </para>
</abstract>

<keywordset>
<keyword
>KDE</keyword>
<keyword
>Kipi</keyword>
</keywordset>
</chapterinfo>

<title
>Introdução</title>

<para
>The MPEG Encoder plugin can be used for convert the selected images on a MPEG sequence with a specific duration and merge all images on an single MPEG file. This plugin use the "MjpegTools" and "ImageMagick" packages. Between the images, you can insert a basic transition. You can also add an audio track on the images sequence with a MP2 or WAV file. All images will be automatically scaling to the good size for the video format. Also a specific background color could be used. You can use this plugin for to build some DVD/XVCD/SVCD/VCD image portfolios for your home DVD player. Use K3b program for create this media. </para>
<para
>You can see some samples building with this plugin at this <ulink url="http://digikamplugins.free.fr/MPEGEncodeSamples/"
> <citetitle
>url.</citetitle
> </ulink
></para>

</chapter>
