[MPlayer-users] Problem encoding multiple files

[Aaron]

This is my first post here, but not my first post of this problem. I tried
it on linuxquestions.org and so far no response. I'm trying to encode a
bunch of jpegs into a movie of any sort, just uncompressed would be fine.
Here is what I'm getting:

mencoder \*.jpg -mf on:w=352:h=288:fps=1 -ovc copy -o testing.avi -vop
scale=352:288

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MEncoder 0.90pre8-RPM-3.1 (C) 2000-2002 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS!)

CPU: Intel Celeron 2/Pentium III Coppermine,Geyserville (Family: 6,
Stepping: 3)
CPUflags: Type: 6 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
Reading /root/.mplayer/codecs.conf: can't open '/root/.mplayer/codecs.conf':
No such file or directory
Reading /etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: 38 audio & 106 video codecs
File not found: 'frameno.avi'
font: can't open file: /root/.mplayer/font/font.desc
font: can't open file: /usr/share/mplayer/font/font.desc
success: format: 0  data: 0x0 - 0x0
forced mf.
[demuxer] mf support.
[mf] search expr: *.jpg
[mf] number of files: 36 (144)
[V] filefmt:16  fourcc:0x47504A49  size:352x288  fps: 1.00  ftime:=1.0000
videocodec: framecopy (352x288 24bpp fourcc=47504a49)
Writing AVI header...
Pos:  36.0s     36f ( 0%)   0fps Trem:   0min   0mb  A-V:0.000 [196:0]
Writing AVI index...
Fixup AVI header...
testing.avi: error writing file.
Exiting...
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It says error writing file, but writes an 800k .avi anyway, which doesn't
play. I have tried libavcodec as well as uncompressed (copy), and I always
get the same error. I have tried using jpgtopnm->pnmtopng with the source
files, but I understand that encoding movies from PNG is sticky to begin
with because of the colorspace. Anyway, I stuck -vop scale= on the end after
reading the thread on a segfault with multiple jpegs, but I never have a
segfault problem. I'm sure this isn't a bug, I'm just not doing something
right, but I've exhausted my resources, tried every example in the docs and
read every archived post here, what is the matter!?

Thanks a lot!

-Aaron