100% Java encoder for AVI animation - java

I am looking for a 100% Java solution for encoding software generated images into an AVI stream together with an uncompressed audio track.
At the moment I am using JMF, but its size and installation problems make it a bad solution for my purpose.

While it does not support audio, I created an MJPEG AVI Java class some years ago. You basically just tell it the resolution of your output video, along with the frame rate, then you just keep adding images to it. When you are done, you tell it to finish and it'll close out the AVI. It is based off of the Microsoft documentation on AVI, RIFF, and BITMAP file formats.
Other than not supporting audio, the only real problem is it implements the version of the AVI format limited to 2GB per file. While the class will write out a much larger file, I am uncertain that any players or video editors would be able to read it.
The way I've used this code in the past, is to generate an MJPEG AVI for processing in a video editor (adding audio, etc. in the editor). It helped me with automating some tedious slide show generation. Not sure if this code will help you, as is, but it might help if you are trying to roll your own solution. MJPEGGenerator.java is available if you are interested!

You can use JMF, see this nice example.

There is a nice blog entry here:
http://www.randelshofer.ch/blog/2008/08/writing-avi-videos-in-pure-java/
By Werner Randelshofer

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I have a very robust Django app that automatically does podcasting for a radio station for all the different shows, but about once a week the computer that does the actual recording records corrupted audio, that has a specific interence pattern, it's a chopping sound almost like a helicopter where the audio drops several times a second. I'm not hoping to fix those audio files(as I've tried manually with good editing software and it's just a lost cause) but rather detect weither or not that type of corruption is present so I can switch to the back-up version of the recording automatically. external tools should ideally run on linux, but windows is acceptable as long as it is headless(no forced gui).
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just read in the mp3 file into an array and then do an fft, for a test I would recommend just plotting it first (using maptlotlib for example), with both versions, corrupt and good and see if you can easily detect the corrupt version. Then hopefully you can write a simple algorithm to detect corrupted files from there fft's.
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I haven't used PyMedia so i'm not sure on reading the mp3 into a buffer (it shouldn't be too complicated I imagine), but after that plotting the fft is as simple as:
from numpy import *
from numpy.fft import *
import pylab
# place code to read the mp3 file into buf[] here.
buf_fft = fft(buf, 1024)
pylab.plot(fftfreq(1024, 0.1), abs(buf_fft))
pylab.show()
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They might not be the best options, but I just thought of these:
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