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

[Kevin Williams]

>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.

Yes it does. It names files with a leading zero, followed by the time. For
eg. 093045.jpg for an image taken at 09:30:45 AM. I used these images
without renaming in the beginning but, for some reason, some of the images
didn't get sorted in the proper order. I don't know what I did wrong. That
is the reason why I took up the painful task of creating symlinks to these
files with linknames starting from 1 which didn't do the trick for the
reason we all are already aware of !

Later, I got rid of these symlinks and used the original files and mencoder
just did the job right !

Thank you all for your help and sorry for the noise again.

Kevin




On 8/1/07, Moritz Barsnick <barsnick at gmx.net> 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...
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