[MEncoder-users] Mencoder does not sort joeg images !?

[Kevin Williams]

I've 1000's of jpeg images taken by my webcam's Time Lapse Video feature. Now, 
I want to stitch these into an AVI video.

I'm using mencoder to get this done and this is the command I use:

mencoder "mf://*.jpg" -mf type=jpeg:fps=10 -o /Movies/image-video2.avi -ovc 
xvid -xvidencopts bitrate=200

The images are named with numbers starting with 1 i.e. 1.jpg, 2.jpg.... and so 
on and so forth, numbered in chronological order with the firstmost/oldest 
image being named 1.jpg. I expected mencoder to sort the filenames in 
ascending order and start with the lowermost number i.e. 1.jpg. Looks like it 
doesn't happen this way. When I play the encoded movie, I can tell that these 
images were not sorted as each of the image has date and time printed on the 
lower right corner and this keeps changing in randomly.

How do I get mencoder to sort the filenames or how can I specify a file that 
contains the list of files sorted in the desired order ?

Surely, there's got to be some logic in this. There's no point in picking up 
images in a random fashion and feeding it to the encoder to create a movie 
which when played look all garbled up ! There's got to be some way to tell 
mencoder to feed the images in a specific order. Is there ?

Sorry, if I didn't make much sense, I just had 4 beers after spending hours 
trying to get the movie made !! ;-)  There just don't seem to be a suitable 
utility to achieve this... !

Thanks for any help.

Kevin