mencoder fails with too many image files

[moricio@…]

I have 41756 image files in a directory and I run the following command:

mencoder "mf://axis_070606*.jpg" -mf fps=30:type=jpg:w=320:h=240 -o output.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=wmv2:vbitrate=150:trell -oac copy

mencoder stops encoding after 644 files and produces an output file with a perfect video.

What is going on?

Thanks.

MRamirez

[moricio@…]

I'm including the output message from the run.

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-bash-2.05b$ mencoder "mf://axis_070606*.jpg" -mf fps=30:type=jpg:w=320:h=240 -o output.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=wmv2:vbitrate=150:trell -oac copy
MEncoder 1.0rc1-3.3.2 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.40GHz (Family: 15, Model: 2, Stepping: 7)
CPUflags: Type: 15 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 SSE SSE2

success: format: 16 data: 0x0 - 0x0
MF file format detected.
[mf] search expr: axis_070606*.jpg
[mf] number of files: 41756 (167024)
VIDEO: [IJPG] 320x240 24bpp 30.000 fps 0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
[V] filefmt:16 fourcc:0x47504A49 size:320x240 fps:30.00 ftime:=0.0333
Opening video filter: [expand osd=1]
Expand: -1 x -1, -1 ; -1, osd: 1, aspect: 0.000000, round: 1
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffmjpeg] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MJPEG decoder)
==========================================================================
VDec: vo config request - 320 x 240 (preferred colorspace: Planar 422P)
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
VDec: using Planar 422P as output csp (no 1)
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 4
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 4
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 1 -> 1
SwScaler: reducing / aligning filtersize 9 -> 8

SwScaler: BICUBIC scaler, from yuv422p to yuv420p using MMX2
SwScaler: using 4-tap MMX scaler for horizontal luminance scaling
SwScaler: using 4-tap MMX scaler for horizontal chrominance scaling
SwScaler: using 1-tap MMX "scaler" for vertical scaling (YV12 like)
SwScaler: 320x240 -> 320x240
videocodec: libavcodec (320x240 fourcc=32564d57 [WMV2])
New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong.
Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf).
subtitle font: load_sub_face failed.
Writing header...
ODML: Aspect information not (yet?) available or unspecified, not writing vprp header.
Writing header...
ODML: Aspect information not (yet?) available or unspecified, not writing vprp header.
Pos: 21.5s 644f ( 0%) 166.71fps Trem: 0min 0mb A-V:0.000 [177:0]
Flushing video frames
Writing index...
Writing header...
ODML: Aspect information not (yet?) available or unspecified, not writing vprp header.

Video stream: 177.391 kbit/s (22173 B/s) size: 476000 bytes 21.467 secs 644 frames

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MRamirez

[compn]

try using the filelist feature of mf://

ls *.jpg > list.txt
mencoder mf://@list.txt ...

[moricio@…]

Hi!
Been there, done that, doesn't work. Any more ideas. Your advice produces the same results.
M.

[compn]

does mplayer mf://axis_070606*.jpg -mf fps=30:type=jpg:w=320:h=240
only play the first 644 frames?

can you try with another shell? tcsh?
mf is kind of buggy...

ffmpeg can also turn images into video:
​http://electron.mit.edu/~gsteele/ffmpeg/

[moricio@…]

Yes it plays the 644 frames(In reply to comment #4)

does mplayer mf://axis_070606*.jpg -mf fps=30:type=jpg:w=320:h=240
only play the first 644 frames?
can you try with another shell? tcsh?
mf is kind of buggy...
ffmpeg can also turn images into video:
​http://electron.mit.edu/~gsteele/ffmpeg/

I tried with other shells and same pattern.
ffmpeg requires the files to be sequeantially numbered and mine are not created that way. Mplayer plays the 644 frames.

[compn]

can you zip up 650 images

(verify that 650 images only outputs 644 frames)
and upload it somewhere so the devs can squash this bug?