Convert webcam images to time-lapse vid, thenupload to YouTube...NEED HELP!

[EricFW]

I am looking to have a completely automated process where: images from streaming webcams are saved to my server, a time-stamp (month, day, year, hours:minutes) is added and displayed on each image, the images for a single day are compiled into a time-lapse video at approximately 5-10 fps, then upload to YouTube on a daily basis. I would like each days images stored in a new folder with that days date as the folder name (ex: 03-23-2012), and to retain the folder for approximately 14 days, then delete the folder and all of its contents on the 15th day. Within the folder, I am assuming that the images should be in chronological order (in order to do the time-lapse). Currently, the images have the following format when they are uploaded by the webcam to my server - 12040315210900.jpg (12-year, 04-month, 03-day, 15-hour, 21-minute, 09-second, 00-ms). When the video is uploaded to YouTube, I would like the video title to have the date plus an identifier (ex: Sunday, March 10 - Backyard; Sunday, March 10 - Garage). The actual file name of the video to be uploaded to YouTube is not that important to me.

I have 12 different webcams that I want to do this for. The webcams can upload a picture to my server every x minutes (I use 5 minutes right now).

I am currently using a Windows XP system (so linux/ubuntu/OS are not good options for me).

I have been messing around with ffmpeg, mencoder, VBScripts, etc and I cannot figure out a good way to do this.

I am sure these are fundamental processes/scripts, but I am too much of a newbie to figure it out.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you.

Eric

[Baldrick]

No, it's not that fundamental. Adding time stamps is not that simple using ffmpeg or mencoder. See for example http://einar.slaskete.net/2011/09/05/adding-time-stamp-overlay-to-video-stream-using-ffmpeg/ . But those filters might not exists on the windows builds then...