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

[Dieter]

> 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 ?

Have you tried naming the files with leading zeros so that they sort correctly?

000000001.jpg
000000002.jpg
000000003.jpg
000000004.jpg
000000005.jpg
000000006.jpg
000000007.jpg
000000008.jpg
000000009.jpg
000000010.jpg
000000011.jpg