[MEncoder-users] PNGs from POV-Ray and stdin

[Rich Felker]

On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 04:26:08AM +0100, SasQ wrote:
> Dnia 10-01-2008 o 04:06:57 Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal.cx> napisał:
> 
> > What format is povray writing to stdout??
> 
> PNG by default, but I can choose one from the following if needed:
> TGA, PNG, PPM.
> 
> When I've generated one single frame to stdout from POV-Ray and
> redirected it to test.png, it has generated proper PNG file.

Yes, concatenating a sequence of png files is not valid or reasonable
though. Try using ppm and ffmpeg's pnmpipe input. (There's absolutely
no need for mencoder here; just use ffmpeg.)

Rich