Hi,

I have been playing around with SVN-r7260 using a command like;

ffmpeg -i %02d.jpg -f mpeg2video out.avi

This does exactly what I expected ... in that it takes the few jpg images and creates a short movie at 1 image per frame.

However ... I don't just have a few jpg images ... but a collection of around 50,000 that I wish to assemble into a 3-ish hour movie sequence.

So a few questions;

1. Is FFMPEG really an appropriate tool for creating such a movie sequence or am I barking up the wrong tree?

I'd say FFMpeg is the right tree :)

2. Is there a command line mechanism for providing, for example, the name of a text file containing the names of all of these images? And if not ... then would anyone else in the user community likely benefit from me adding such functionality?

There was a proposal for that, maybe you can finish it: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.devel/35873/focus=35873

3. If not 2, then I am stuck using '-i %05d.jpg' and having to relocate all of my images into one *big* directory for processing. Are there any internal limits on '-i' that I should consider before following this route?

I believe there is a generous 1 << 30 limit (./libavformat/img2.c) Regards, V?ctor