[FFmpeg-devel] [Patch] improve section 3.2 of the faq

[Stefano Sabatini]

On date Monday 2010-01-11 03:00:59 -0500, John Van Sickle encoded:
> On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 5:57 AM, Stefano Sabatini
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> Index: doc/faq.texi
> ===================================================================
> --- doc/faq.texi	(revision 21123)
> +++ doc/faq.texi	(working copy)
> @@ -138,6 +138,22 @@
>  
>  @file{img%03d.jpg} means the sequence @file{img001.jpg}, @file{img002.jpg}, etc...
>  
> +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 @code{*jpg} to the @file{/tmp} directory in the sequence of @file{img001.jpg}, @file{img002.jpg} 
> +and so on. If you want to sequence them by oldest modified first, substitute @code{`ls -r -t *jpg`} 
> +in place of @code{*jpg}.
> +
> + at example
> +  x=1; for i in *jpg; do counter=`printf %03d $x`; ln "$i" /tmp/img"$counter".jpg; x=$(($x+1)); done
> + at end example
> +
> +Then run:
> +
> + at example
> +  ffmpeg -f image2 -i /tmp/img%03d.jpg /tmp/a.mpg
> + at end example
> +
>  The same logic is used for any image format that ffmpeg reads.
>  
>  @section How do I encode movie to single pictures?

Fine to me, I only suggest to prefer $() syntax to ``, I found more
readable and easier to nest (that's not a case we're using that in the
configure system), no patch needed for just that change though.

Diego?

Regards.
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