On 6/18/10 4:06 PM, Ingo Thies wrote:
> Hi Hanspeter,
>
>> Fink's ffmpeg is currently 2 years old, so it is possible that joining
>> pictures into a movie doesn't work in that version.  The maintainer has
>> been busy and unable to update to the newer version.
>
> Ah, I'm a bit surprised about this. I'd have thought that combining images
> into a movie would be among the very first features of ffmpeg since
> creating movies seems to be more basical than converting existing ones.

Me too.  The instructions from here 
<http://www.ffmpeg.org/faq.html#SEC14> (which I used in the example 
below) don't work?

>> I have a test version of ffmpeg-0.5.1 available here
>> <http://cvs.snaggledworks.com/viewvc.cgi/fink/3rdparty/main/finkinfo/graphics/>
>> that you can try (and it does join PNGs to a movie with this command:
>> ffmpeg -f image2 -i pic%d.png foo.mp4).
>
> Maybe, when I find time.
>
> Unfortunately, I currently don't have too much time to make some big
> experiments on my system (does this version spread its components over the
> whole standard system paths as most installations do?) unless I am forced
> to.
>
>> FFmpeg 0.6 just came out and I'll try to make a version of it available
>> for testing (maybe this weekend).
>
> Ah, thanks, if this is really no big deal, this would be fine!

The example command I gave above works with the ffmpeg-0.5.1 in my 
experimental tree, you shouldn't need to wait for the 0.6 version for that.

Hanspeter

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