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“Mosaic movies are popular in today’s television and advertising
media due to their visual appeal and suggestions of technological
advancement. This article will cover the methods required to create
your own mosaic movies using text and graphics as the foreground
subject. The background subject images will be composed of a set of
frames from your existing video library.“Using MPlayer to extract frames of any video into jpeg files,
we will process the images using a Perl script to composite them
into sequence. MPlayer’s movie encoder mencoder is then used to
assemble the movie frames into an mpeg4 or divx-encoded video
stream…”