[MEncoder-users] Creating animated screenshots

[Marko Hyvonen]

I have used mencoder to render fair few movies from png files and 
used following command

mencoder "mf://myfiles*.png" -mf fps=18 -o mymovie.mpg -ovc lavc -lavcopts 
vcodec=msmpeg4v2:vbitrate=9000

Fine for jpegs as well as far as i can recall from one time I did it.  

These play Ok on my WinXP and well as on Win2K, both on their own and when
inserted to powerpoint. I found that for some reason files with .avi
extension failed on powerpoint, but the same file with mpg extension
worked well - on their own both work Ok and play with mediaplayer by
default. msmpeg4 codec failed on Win2K in powerpoint for some reason,
hence the msmpeg4v2.

Hope this helps, Marko

> Tried the wmv codec. Result file plays ok in mlayer/linux, but MS-mediaplayer 
> is stuck on the very first frame (although the sliders moves as if it is 
> playing)
> 
> Anybody else expirienced this? Problem with m mencoder or MS again?
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> MEncoder-users mailing list
> MEncoder-users at mplayerhq.hu
> http://www.mplayerhq.hu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mencoder-users
>