[MPlayer-users] [OT] Creating a slide show

[cga2000]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 08:53:07AM EST, Florian Mickler wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 22:28:38 -0500
> cga2000 <cga2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 05:46:21PM EST, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> > > Better do something like
> > > 
> > > mencoder mf://@imglist -mf fps=10
> > > 
> > > and create a file imglist with contents something like
> > > 1.jpg
> > > 1.jpg
> > > 2.jpg
> > > 2.jpg
> > > ....
> > 
> > Thanks, Reimar .. I did basically the same .. duplicating my jpeg's
> > under different names, ad nauseam .. but isn't that going to be a huge
> > waste of space?  Say .. if my jpeg's are like 2Meg each .. ??
> > 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> you misunderstood Reimar. 
> He meant a plain ascii file named "imglist" with as many
> times the same imagefilename in it as you want frames to display that
> file
>  (FYI: fps means frames per second)

:-)

Yes, RC's earlier post clarified and showed me how it's done.

Quite a roundabout way of doing it but that was my dilemma: if my .wav
file is one minute, how do I tell mencoder that I want to display my
jpeg for the same amount of time.

.. tested early this morning that for one minute, I need 60 entries in
the imglist file and specify fps=1 .. or 30 entries and fps=.5 .. etc.

In any case, things are now basically working .. just need a bit of
tweaking to get the timing absolutely right .. crop/scale my jpeg's ..
etc. and I'm good to go.

Thanks much for all your help!