ok i found it out for myself, it works for me with this commandline for i in *.jpg; do convert $i ppm:- ; done | ppmtoy4m -n50 -F25:1 -A59:54 -I p -r -S 420mpeg2 | mpeg2enc -n p -f8 -b5000 -a3 -o matrix_menu_background.m2v -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list