Re: passing multiple frames through xvid_encraw

On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, Matt Newcomb wrote:

> Hi, I'm trying to figure out xvid and the encraw program out a little
> bit more, and I would like to be able to take multiple .pgm files and
> create one video out of them.  I though that's what the cactus example
> did, but is there a way to specify multiple input file names for the
> encoding program? 

You cannot specify more than 1 input file, but (of course) you can encode 
several images into one MPEG-4 file: 
 
First way is to concatenate all .pgm files into one big one. 
  
  # cat *.pgm > all.pgm 
  # xvid_encraw -i all.pgm  ... 

Second and more elegant way is to use standard input as xvid_encraw's 
input (which is default) and 'cat' the files into a pipe. 

  # cat *.pgm | ./xvid_encraw ...
 
chl