[MPlayer-users] jpeg sequence while encoding

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 12:01:52AM +0900, Georgi Georgiev wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 03:56:06PM -0800, Sycotic Smith wrote:
> > Example: mencoder `cat list-of-files.txt` -mf on:w=800:h=600:fps=25 -ovc divx4 -oac copy -o output.avi
> 
> There is a limit on the length of the commandline. `cat list-of-files.txt`
> would not work if there are many files.... I don't know how
> many.

It won't work anyway. mencoder only takes ONE filename. -mf requires
the filename to be a glob-style mask that matches all the files you
want.

The correct way to solve the problem here (until mencoder is enhanced
a good bit more) is to learn how to use symlinks!

Rich