[FFmpeg-user] Convert a series of SGI images to video

[Werner Robitza]

> > The question is, why shouldn't it?
> > cat *.jpg | ffmpeg -f image2pipe -c:v mjpeg -i - works as far as I know,
> > and is used here as well:
> >
> https://ffmpeg.org/trac/ffmpeg/wiki/Create%20a%20video%20slideshow%20from%20images
>
> That works for jpeg, png, bmp, ppm, pgm, pbm, pam but can not for sgi
> as there is no
> sgi parser.


Interesting, thanks.

What do you mean by "SGI parser", specifically?
Where is the difference between that kind of parser and a demuxer (which
FFmpeg does have for SGI)?