[FFmpeg-user] Extract a frame

[Moritz Barsnick]

On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 11:13:01 -0500, nonya bidness wrote:

> The reason I was trying the previous method is that with the
> timestamp, I was unable to get FFMpeg to stitch together a time lapse
> of the images trying to use 2019-%14d or similar. Do you have any
> suggestions on how to go about doing that?

Do check the image2 demuxer's options:
https://www.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-formats.html#image2-1

You want to specify
  -pattern_type glob -i "sunflower*.jpg"

If you use a file name format which sorts identically both by date and
alphabetically, this should work fine.

Cheers,
Moritz