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

[Phil Ehrens]

Moritz Barsnick wrote:
> Hi Kevin,
> 
> On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 15:21:29 -0400, Kevin Williams wrote:
> 
> > Yes, it is true that a leading 0 can fix the problem of collating. This is
> > something I had done before, forgot over the time ! :-(
> > 
> > Said that, mencoder is working just perfect with filenames beginning with
> > 0s.
> 
> My webcam drops its images with sortable timestamps, such as
> 20070801-213150-01.jpg [*], but just because the program can be configured
> to do so. :-) Perhaps yours can as well.
> 
> Moritz
> 
> [*] Don't use American type confusing timestamps, such as YYYYDDMM.
>     They are sooooooo confusing...

The only time representation system that's guaranteed to sort
properly is gps represented as 10.9 fixed point. But this
requires an updateable leapsecond lookup table, so it's
not in common use.