[FFmpeg-user] Creating time-lapse from more than a thousand images

[Weston Ruter]

Thank you for the replies.

My filenames are in the format YYYYYY-MM-DD-HHMMSS.jpg, for
example 2012-09-03-121544.jpg. So I didn't want to have to rename (or make
hard links) in the format %04d.jpg. I found that ffmpeg can do globbing via
http://murphyrandle.com/blog/2012/08/03/ffmpeg-can-handle-the-globs/

However, it turns out that the problem is with my input data. The ~1000th
image was corrupted (zero bytes) and so it seems ffmpeg aborted due to
that. I deleted the malformed image and re-ran the command `ffmpeg -i
'%*.jpg' -r 30 -q:v 2 timelapse.mp4`, and it worked perfectly.

Thanks!

On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Andy Civil <andycivil at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2012-09-03 1:16 PM, Weston Ruter wrote:
>
>> I've had success making time-lapse videos from still images, but only when
>> the number of input stills is less than ~1000. Is there a way around this
>> limitation? Here's the command I'm using:
>>
>> ffmpeg -r 30 -q:v 2  -i '%*.jpg' timelapse.mp4
>>
>>
> I'm wondering if you've made a command line that's just too long by using
> the single-quote syntax. Could you use something like
>
> ffmpeg -f image2 -i IMG_%04d.jpg -r 30 -q:v 2 timelapse.mp4
>
> because I believe that makes FFmpeg do the expansion, not the shell.
>
> (There was once a restriction on how the files were numbered, i.e.
> starting from 0000 or 0001, not sure if that's still valid. Untested
> command example.)
>
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