Ross spake:

> "Greg M. Johnson" <gregj;-)565### [at] aolcom> wrote in message
> news:42b1fa07@news.povray.org...
>> Any recs for apps to turn a stack-o-bitmaps into an MPG?
>>
>> Apparently TMPGENc requires Win
>>
>>
> 
> mencoder which is a part of mplayer works. It's a little complex, but
> there are some examples.
> 
> http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/menc-feat-enc-images.html
> 
> with some success, i was using:
> mencoder mf://*.png -mf w=400:h=300:fps=25:type=png -ovc copy  -o
> output.avi
> 

> but i'm not sure what players that would work on. works with mplayer
> anyway
> :)
> 
> 
> here's another helpfull site:
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Mencoder_Introduction_Guide
> 
> but i had problems with mencoder giving a segmentation fault with anything
> other than "-ovc copy". for instance, "-ovc lavc" plus lavc options caused
> seg faults.

Hmm - I had better luck with .JPEG's:

mencoder \*.jpg -mf on:fps=35 -o output.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts
vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:v4mv #polar_divx_35_fps_libav.avi
 
and to add sound (if you have transcode):

transcode -i output.avi -p song.mp3 -P1 -o output_s.avi -y raw

Didn't crash and worked fine.
-- 
Stefan Viljoen
Software Support Technician / Programmer
Polar Design Solutions

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