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

[Reimar Döffinger]

Hello,
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 07:29:30PM -0400, Kevin Williams wrote:
> >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 !

Next time just create a list of files with ls and sort them e.g. with
sort + the right options and the use the mf://@listfile syntax.

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger