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Dave Phillips wrote:

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> Greetings,

>

> I use the following command to invoke mencoder to compile a series of

> TGA image files into an animation :

>

> mencoder -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vme=1:keyint=30:vbitrate=1000

> -vf scale=800:600 -noskip -mf type=tga:fps=30 -o avs-001.avi mf://*.tga

>

>

> (Sorry about the line breaks.)

>

> The problem starts with the "mf://*.tga" part of the command. When the

> AVSynthesis program creates its TGA images it saves and labels them

> sequenctially, i.e. 1.tga, 2.tga, 3.tga and so on, as expected. The

> problem is that mencoder reads the files as they would be returned by a

> plain ls command, i.e. 1.tga, 10.tga, 100.tga, 1000.tga, 1001.tga

> ...101.tga, 1010.tga, thus interpolating frames out of their correct order.

>

> So, my question is, how do I get mencoder to read the TGA files by their

> time of creation ? 

I'm not sure if you can
> That should do the trick, yes ? Otherwise I have to

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> separate the single digit files from the double digit files and so

> forth, then I have to create and join separate AVIs. Not terribly

> difficult, just really annoying and time-consuming.

>

> Any suggestions ? Any mencoder users out there ?

yes, but when I found myself at this crossing, I choose the pragmatic

shell path:
mkdir sl; i=100000; for file in $(ls -tr *.sgi); do ln -s $file

sl/$i.sgi; i=$[ $i + 1 ]; done;
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and run mencoder on the symlinks.
> Also, what do you use in place of mencoder on a 64-bit system ? (It's

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> not available for 64 Studio.)

It's not a 64-bit problem, but ffmpeg licensing issues with 64studio.
robin
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