[FFmpeg-user] Images to video under Windows

[Reindl Harald]

Am 23.05.2017 um 10:35 schrieb Wolfgang Hugemann:
>> e.g.   cat *.jpg | ffmpeg -f image2pipe -framerate 25 -i - out.mp4
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> Does piping really work under Windows? The Windows equivalent to 'cat' would be 'dir /b'. But changing the command line this way creates an error that basically says that the input stream is empty.
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> I couldn't find any example for input piping with ffmpeg on Windows. Are you sure that it functions at all?
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> BTW: Is there any source of information on the specifics and limitations when using ffmpeg under Windows? The situation seems to be a little bit like that for ImageMagick, where I had to write that kind of webpage myself (http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/windows)

well, the limitations of Windows are not really ffmpeg relevant itself
https://www.cygwin.com/