[Nottingham] Time lapse video encoding

[Dave]

Hi List,

Does anyone know of an open-source program that can take a directory 
full of photos (jpgs) and convert them to a video?  Something along the 
lines of photolapse 3 on this page: 
http://home.hccnet.nl/s.vd.palen/index.html which is unfortunately both 
closed source and Windows only.

Also, does anyone have any thoughts on what is the best video format to 
encode into, there seem to be a confusing multitude out there!  I 
realise that "best" is very subjective!

Cheers - Dave