Build a Free Taobao Main Image Video Generator with Python, Tkinter & FFmpeg

Introduction

Many e‑commerce sellers use a main‑image video to increase product exposure; this tutorial shows how to build a free desktop tool that assembles images into a video with background music using Python.

Project Preparation

Required tools: Sublime Text 3, FFmpeg, and Python modules tkinter, os, PIL, time.

Project Goal

Combine multiple pictures into a single video and add background audio.

Step 1 – Prepare Images

Collect the pictures you want to include (any PNG or JPG files).

Step 2 – Import Modules

import time</code><code>from tkinter import filedialog</code><code>import tkinter as t</code><code>from PIL import Image</code><code>from tkinter import messagebox</code><code>import os

Step 3 – Build the GUI

Using tkinter we create the main window, text box, and all buttons needed for the workflow.

self.tl=[] # list for images</code><code>self.aa='' # audio path</code><code>self.fg=os.path.join(os.path.expanduser("~"),'Desktop')</code><code>self.root=t.Tk()</code><code>self.root.title('淘宝主图视频生成器v1.0')</code><code>self.root.iconbitmap('1.ico')</code><code>self.root.geometry('700x600')</code><code>self.root.attributes('-alpha',0.9)</code><code>self.root.wm_attributes('-topmost',1)</code><code>self.tt=t.Text(self.root,width=75,height=30)</code><code>self.b1=t.Button(self.root,text='打开图片文件',font=('宋体',13,'bold'),command=self.open_file)</code><code>self.b3=t.Button(self.root,text='打开音频文件',font=('宋体',13,'bold'),command=self.adio)</code><code>self.b7=t.Button(self.root,text='打开文件并批量修改',font=('宋体',13,'bold'),command=self.xg)</code><code>self.b8=t.Button(self.root,text='查看照片',font=('宋体',13,'bold'),command=self.ck)</code><code>self.l1=t.Label(self.root,text='视频文件名：')</code><code>self.e=t.Entry(self.root)</code><code>self.b2=t.Button(self.root,text='生成主图视频',font=('宋体',13,'bold'),command=self.video)</code><code>self.b4=t.Button(self.root,text='播放音频文件',font=('宋体',13,'bold'),command=self.play)</code><code>self.b5=t.Button(self.root,text='清空文本框内容',font=('宋体',13,'bold'),command=self.close)</code><code>self.b6=t.Button(self.root,text='预览视频内容',font=('宋体',13,'bold'),command=self.player)</code><code>self.l2=t.Label(self.root,text='视频分辨率：')</code><code>self.l3=t.Label(self.root,text='长：')</code><code>self.e1=t.Entry(self.root,width=5)</code><code>self.l4=t.Label(self.root,text='宽：')</code><code>self.e2=t.Entry(self.root,width=5)</code><code>self.tt.place(x=10,y=50)</code><code>self.b1.place(x=100,y=10)</code><code>self.l1.place(x=120,y=460)</code><code>self.e.place(x=200,y=460)</code><code>self.b2.place(x=200,y=550)</code><code>self.b3.place(x=240,y=10)</code><code>self.b4.place(x=550,y=120)</code><code>self.b5.place(x=550,y=200)</code><code>self.b6.place(x=550,y=300)</code><code>self.l2.place(x=120,y=500)</code><code>self.l3.place(x=200,y=500)</code><code>self.l4.place(x=280,y=500)</code><code>self.e1.place(x=230,y=500)</code><code>self.e2.place(x=310,y=500)</code><code>self.b7.place(x=380,y=10)</code><code>self.b8.place(x=580,y=10)</code><code>self.root.mainloop()

Step 4 – Implement Core Functions

4.1 Open Image and Audio Files

Use filedialog.askopenfilenames for images (PNG/JPG) and filedialog.askopenfilename for audio (WAV/MP3).

# select images</code><code>aa=filedialog.askopenfilenames(title='选择所有主图文件',filetypes=[('png','PNG'),('jpg','JPG'),('All Files','*')])</code><code># select audio</code><code>filedialog.askopenfilename(title='打开音频文件',filetypes=[('WAV','wav'),('MP3','mp3'),('All Files','*')])

4.2 Capture FFmpeg Log to Text Box

Redirect FFmpeg output to a temporary file, then read it into the GUI text widget.

if os.path.exists('1.txt'):</code><code>    try:</code><code>        f=open(os.path.join(self.fg,'1.txt'),'r',encoding='utf-8')</code><code>    except:</code><code>        messagebox.showinfo(title='提示',message='-----成功生成主图视频文件失败----')</code><code>    finally:</code><code>        self.tt.insert('insert',f.read()+'
')</code><code>        self.tt.insert('insert','
')</code><code>        messagebox.showinfo(title='提示',message='-----成功生成主图视频文件成功----
 文件名为：%s.mp4'%self.e.get())</code><code>        f.close()</code><code>else:</code><code>    af=open(os.path.join(self.fg,'1.txt'),'w')</code><code>    af.close()

4.3 Generate Video with FFmpeg

Run FFmpeg with the chosen images, audio, frame rate, duration, resolution, and output file.

os.popen('ffmpeg -r 0.3 -t 300 -i {}/%d.png -i {} -strict -2 -f mp4 -s {}x{} {} >{} 2>&1'.format(ab,self.aa,str(self.e1.get()),str(self.e2.get()),os.path.join(self.fg,self.e.get()+'.mp4'),os.path.join(self.fg,'1.txt')))

4.4 Preview the Result

os.popen(self.e.get()+'.mp4')

Conclusion

By leveraging FFmpeg and a simple Tkinter interface, you can automatically create a main‑image video for e‑commerce platforms, and the same technique can be adapted for many other multimedia automation tasks.