Making movies using Java

Hi,
I am trying to make movies using Java, and naturally with Java Media Framework it is doable. However, it is a huge overhead to my tiny tool to be distributed over the Internet, and also makes the program very hard to install for my end users, so I cannot use it.
In essence, what need to do is to take a series of jpeg images generated by my program, and convert them into a movie. Preferably to mpeg-1.
It only needs to work on Windows platforms, so I have been looking for a command line tool I can call from my Java program that will automatically compress the jpeg files.
Do you have any pointers? Help would be greately appreciated, as I have been looking near and far for such a program.
Thank you...

Although I can't offer any help, I'd be interested to see where you go with this topic. I had a request for a program to sequence JPEG and TIFF images (taken from a E.Microsope) into movie sequences a while ago. Similar kinds of limitations. Are there any C libraries in existance that you could call into using JNI?

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