[MPlayer-users] Bug Report: jpeg to avi is broken

[Philip Walden]

Reimar Döffinger wrote:

>Hi,
>On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 02:03:34PM -0700, Philip Walden wrote:
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>>So it would seem you guess might be correct. I would think that mplayer 
>>would wanty to be able to handle most jpegs. Could I send someone a 
>>sample of a few jpegs to see what they can find about these things?
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>Depending on size send them either to this list or upload to
>ftp://mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/incoming.
>
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>>Converting a 1000 jpegs to png is not what I wanted to do. I was hoping 
>>for something that could automatically convert these webcam pictures to 
>>a movie on the fly daily or hourly without a lot of pre-processing.
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>Well, you could do e.g.
>for i in *.jpg ; do
>  jpegtopnm "$i" | pnmtopng > "$i".png
>done
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>beforehand.
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Well this is an acceptable workaround. Thank you very much for your 
patience and help!

Using png files the mf:// input works as I expect.

But it still sounds like a bug in the jpeg trancode.