Hi all. I''m using mencoder to encode to avi jpgs generated by some security cameras, the file are written in a ftp server with this filename format camX_datetime (e.g cam4_20041224190000.jpg) . The problem is, mencoder doesn't seem to encode all .jpg files. For example from a list of 1149 files (from 1 hour recording) it only encodes 56 frames. Using different sets of .jpg files , (between 400-1000 files) it always encodes less files that there are on the disk. Any clue on this will be highly appreciated. BTW: I have tried with mpeg4/mjpeg codecs with the same result. ---------------- # mencoder mf:// -mf type=jpg -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4 -o out MEncoder 1.0pre5try2-3.3.4 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team CPU: Intel Pentium 4/Xeon/Celeron Northwood 2993 MHz (Family: 8, Stepping: 4) Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes MMX supported but disabled MMX2 supported but disabled SSE supported but disabled CPUflags: Type: 8 MMX: 0 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 1 Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: SSE2 Reading /root/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Can't open '/root/.mplayer/codecs.conf': No such file or directory Reading /usr/share/mplayer/codecs.conf: 73 audio & 180 video codecs File not found: 'frameno.avi' Failed to open frameno.avi Reading config file /root/.mplayer/mencoder: No such file or directory font: can't open file: /root/.mplayer/font/font.desc Font /usr/share/mplayer/font/font.desc loaded successfully! (206 chars) success: format: 16 data: 0x0 - 0x0 [demuxer] mf support. [mf] search expr: * [mf] number of files: 1149 (4596) [V] filefmt:16 fourcc:0x47504A49 size:0x0 fps:25.00 ftime:=0.0400 Opening video filter: [expand osd=1] Expand: -1 x -1, -1 ; -1 (-1=autodetect) osd: 1 ========================================================================== Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family Selected video codec: [ffmjpeg] vfm:ffmpeg (FFmpeg MJPEG decoder) ========================================================================== Writing AVI header... ODML: Aspect information not (yet?) available or unspecified, not writing vprp header. VDec: vo config request - 320 x 240 (preferred csp: Planar 422P) Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale... Opening video filter: [scale] VDec: using Planar 422P as output csp (no 1) Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect. SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 1 SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 1 SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 1 SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 9 -> 8 SwScaler: BICUBIC scaler, from Planar 422P to Planar YV12 using C videocodec: libavcodec (320x240 fourcc=58564944 [DIVX]) Pos: 2.2s 56f ( 0%) 34fps Trem: 0min 0mb A-V:0.000 [786:0] Writing AVI index... Fixing AVI header... ODML: vprp aspect is 4:3. Video stream: 786.411 kbit/s (98301 bps) size: 220195 bytes 2.240 secs 56 frames linux-dvr 1 # Another example, worse this time