Hi,

i'm trying to convert a set of png files to a divx. They are numbered from 0001.png to 0037.png.

But the commandlines which are explained in the official mencoder faq are not working with the MorphOS port of mencoder (probably too old, dunno).

I tried the command lines here:
http://web.njit.edu/all_topics/Prog_Lang_Docs/html/mplayer/encoding.html

but all what i get is:

==========================================================================
Requested video codec family [mpng] (vfm=mpng) not available (enable it at compilation)
*** Try to upgrade PROGDIR:conf/codecs.conf from etc/codecs.conf
*** If it still does not work, read DOCS/codecs.html!
Cannot find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x474E504D.
==========================================================================

I tried it with different output options but i always end up in this error (which is a bit unlogical for me :). Maybe the MorphOS port has some problems to scan the command line properly.. dunno.


So my question: Did someone succesfully converted a bunch of pictures (single frames) into a movie with mencoder?


thanks for help.
tokai

Hello,

Another solution shall be to encode first the animation in IFF, convert it to mpeg and then to divx.

You should find usefull tools in aminet.

Regards,

Tcheko.

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[ Edited by Velcro_SP on 2011/3/12 1:51 ]

It is exact that mpeg will make a small loss of quality (if high bitrate used).

To avoid this, instead of mpeg, use avi with full frame encoding without any or RLE compression. No quality loss.

mencoder version is bugged so you cant (even with another picture
format(png and jpeg have not been included at compilation))

hi!
Maybe ffmpeg is able to do the job... (?)
good luck!
frostwork

if i remember correctly it worked with PPM files. but another weird thing was that it started to eat memory (not releasing it ofcoz) and finaly crashed.

.....it could be ffmpeg that was eating the memory. you can try it and check (for short anim it will work fine).