termux-timelapse

Creating time lapse movies using Termux on Android.

Uses the termux-camera-photo command-line utility from the Termux API package to take JPG images and then convert them into a .mp4 movie using ffmpeg.

Requirements

• Termux app

• Termux:API app

• open a termux shell and install termux-api and ffmpeg

  pkg install termux-api ffmpeg
  

Usage

When executed, the timelapse.sh script will ask the user for:

• ID of camera to obtain images from (termux-camera-id)
• Prefix for the images/movie
• The number of images to take
• The interval between taking images (taking images takes 1-2 seconds)
• The frames-per-second (FPS) to use for the movie