[ubuntu-uk] Converting many .jpgs to mpeg4 without using wildcards

[Dominic Forrest]

Dominic Forrest wrote:
>
> Hi,
>    I need to regularly convert a few hundred/thousand .jpgs to a mpeg4 
> (or other) video.  These files are selected as the result of a mysql 
> query from perl and sit within a number of directories along with many 
> more images which will not form part of the video - hence I cannot use 
> wildcards with ffmpeg (or any other tool).  I can easily list all the 
> filenames in order to a file but am unable to find a way to use this 
> file (which currently has the full path to one jpg on each line) as 
> input to ffmpeg.
>
> Currently the only way I have found to do this is to copy all the 
> files (or create links) to a new directory which then allows me to use 
> wildcards - however this seems horribly inefficient!
>
> Any thoughts or solutions welcomed!
>
>
> Dom
>



That certainly passes the list to ffmpeg as I wanted - I'm just 
struggling a but with ffmpeg at the moment!


Thanks for the quick & helpful reply.


Dom