[MPlayer-users] documentation mencoder section multiple jpg / png / tga

[Mario Valle]

Helmut Rathgen wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I would like to suggest an addition to the MEncoder Doc 
> http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/menc-feat-enc-images.html.
> 
> 
> For me the example commands to generate movies from multiple jpg / png / 
> tga, e.g.
> 
> mencoder mf://*.jpg -mf w=800:h=600:fps=25:type=jpg -ovc lavc -lavcopts 
> vcodec=mpeg4 -oac copy -o /output.avi/
> 
> did not  work.
> 
> 
> I did a web search on this topic and found that this is a general 
> problem and many people were not able to solve it. In my case the 
> problem was with the automatic choice of the video codec for the 
> generation of the stream. So it works if I specify the video codec 
> explicitly, e.g.
> 
> mencoder mf://*.jpg -mf w=800:h=600:fps=25:type=jpg -vc ijpg -ovc lavc 
> -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4 -oac copy -o /output.avi
> 
> or
> 
> /mencoder mf://*.png -mf fps=25 -vc mpng -ovc copy -oac copy -o /output.avi
> 
> 
> /So I would like to suggest you to add an example like this to the 
> MEncoder Doc section cited above!
> 
> 
> Kind Regards,
> 
> Helmut
> 
> 
> 
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Never had any kind of problem!
BTW saying "did not  work" is a little generic. What kind of problems you had?
In the past (before pre7) I had problems with PNG, now solved.
With JPEG I have problems with some strange formatted file, so I tend to stay on PNG.
Regards
			mario

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