[FFmpeg-user] why is ffmpeg trying to overwrite an input file?

[Dave Stevens]

On Sun, 20 Oct 2019 00:56:47 +0200
Carl Eugen Hoyos <ceffmpeg at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Am 19.10.2019 um 22:43 schrieb Dave Stevens <geek at uniserve.com>:
> > 
> > I have about 100  png files that are named with their creation date
> > like this: '2019-10-18-204759_1366x768_scrot.png' . The collating
> > sequence is the same as their chronological sequence. I found what
> > seemed to be a reasonable suggestion to use:
> > 
> > ffmpeg -framerate 24 -i *.png output.mp4  
> 
> See:
> http://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-formats.html#image2-1
> 
> Use the glob option if you cannot rename your input files to
> xyz001.png to xyz100.png

yes this worked:

ffmpeg -framerate 24 -pattern_type glob -i "*.png" output.mp4


thanks very much!

d
> 
> Note that the behaviour you see is mostly independent of FFmpeg and
> will not be changed.
> 
> Carl Eugen
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