FFMPEG FFmpeg FAQ 3 Usage 3.2 How do I encode single pictures into movies?
If you have large number of pictures to rename, you can use the following command to ease the burden. The command, using the bourne shell syntax, symbolically links all files in the current directory that match *jpg to the /tmp directory in the sequence of img001.jpg, img002.jpg and so on.
x=1; for i in *jpg; do counter=$(printf %03d $x); ln -s "$i" /tmp/img"$counter".jpg; x=$(($x+1)); done
FFMPEG FFmpeg FAQ 3 Usage 3.2 How do I encode single pictures into movies?
First, rename your pictures to follow a numerical sequence. For example, img1.jpg, img2.jpg, img3.jpg,... Then you may run:
ffmpeg -f image2 -i img%d.jpg /tmp/a.mpg
FFMPEG FFmpeg FAQ 3 Usage 3.2 How do I encode single pictures into movies?
You can also use cat to pipe images to ffmpeg:
cat *.jpg | ffmpeg -f image2pipe -c:v mjpeg -i - output.mpg
FFMPEG FFmpeg FAQ 3 Usage 3.2 How do I encode single pictures into movies?
Use the -start_number option to declare a starting number for the sequence. This is useful if your sequence does not start with img001.jpg but is still in a numerical order. The following example will start with img100.jpg:
ffmpeg -f image2 -start_number 100 -i img%d.jpg /tmp/a.mpg
FFMPEG FFmpeg FAQ 3 Usage 3.2 How do I encode single pictures into movies?
Then run:
ffmpeg -f image2 -i /tmp/img%03d.jpg /tmp/a.mpg

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