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beauchette
beauchette

Reputation: 1124

Making a video from arbitrary named files using ffmpeg

I have image files from a webcam, they are named in the format: 2018-02-06-16-40-05.jpg Is it possible to make a video out of these images without having to rename them in a format similar to image%04d.jpg, etc.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 610

Answers (1)

Business Tomcat
Business Tomcat

Reputation: 1061

Yes, it is possible. For example:

ffmpeg -framerate 10 -pattern_type glob -i '*.jpg' -c:v libx264 -pix_fmt yuv420p out.mp4

The glob is bash style and * stands for any number of characters.

Or you can use:

cat *.jpg | ffmpeg -f image2pipe -i - output.mkv

Both solutions are sorting the images by name ascending order. Should be fine, if you have filenames with date and time.

More informations here: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Slideshow

Upvotes: 2

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