[FFmpeg-user] Images to video under Windows

[Gyan]

On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 2:05 PM, Wolfgang Hugemann <auto at hugemann.de> wrote:

> > e.g.   cat *.jpg | ffmpeg -f image2pipe -framerate 25 -i - out.mp4
>
> Does piping really work under Windows? The Windows equivalent to 'cat'
> would be 'dir /b'. But changing the command line this way creates an error
> that basically says that the input stream is empty.
>
> I couldn't find any example for input piping with ffmpeg on Windows. Are
> you sure that it functions at all?
>
>
This works for me in the cmd shell on Win7:

    type *.jpg | ffmpeg -f image2pipe -i - {encoding options) output.ext

In any case, dir /b produces a listing. cat/type emit the data of the
operands.