How to creating animation videos programmatically ( Java or C ) from pictures

I am creating a animation video for which I have the frame by frame pictures. I want to create a video out of it but only programmatically and not using any tool like MovieMaker, Flash开发者_JAVA百科 or AdobePremier.

Please let me know if there any apis which can combine these frames and create compressed video in any of the formats like AVI, MPEG-4 etc and which all takes various parameters like BitRate, KeyFrame rate etc into account while doing the compression

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This is an easy task. You can use the opencv api. Initialise an iplimage array to the images you wanna include, run a loop till end of array. Load each image with cvloadimage, display it on window. Have a delay of 1/24 sec. And repeat. You can even choose to save this in the numerous formats supported.