Anil Kumble Circle – Time Lapse video

BTIS.IN provides images from traffic cameras across Bangalore. I wrote a simple script to capture and store images from camera no 3 (Anil Kumble Circle). Code is very simple and is listed below.

$img[]='http://www.btis.in/cameras/images/3.jpg';
foreach($img as $i){
    save_image($i);
    echo 'Image Downloaded OK';
}
function save_image($img,$fullpath='basename'){
    if($fullpath=='basename'){
        $fullpath = basename($img);
    }
    $dateTime = new DateTime("now", new DateTimeZone('Asia/Calcutta'));
    $ts = $dateTime->format("Y_m_d_H_i_s");
    $ch = curl_init ($img);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER,1);
    $rawdata=curl_exec($ch);
    curl_close ($ch);
    $fp = fopen($ts.'.jpg','w');
    fwrite($fp, $rawdata);
    fclose($fp);
}

The camera AK circle is usually up from morning 6 to evening 7. I have about 1.3k valid pictures from last four months. I stitched them together to form a time lapse video.

ls -1tr > files.txt
mencoder -nosound -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4 -o test.avi -mf type=jpeg:fps=15 mf://@files.txt

I wish there was a public web cam looking at any metro construction.