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

2007-06-06 Thread Dominic Forrest
Toby Smithe wrote: On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 08:19 +0100, Martyn wrote: When your perl script runs have it make a working directory and then symlink (ln -s) every file that matches the criteria into the working directory. Then at the end of the run you'll have a directory with all the

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

2007-06-05 Thread Toby Smithe
On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 08:19 +0100, Martyn wrote: When your perl script runs have it make a working directory and then symlink (ln -s) every file that matches the criteria into the working directory. Then at the end of the run you'll have a directory with all the matching files in it, and you

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

2007-06-05 Thread Toby Smithe
On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 13:56 +0100, Martyn wrote: If you've got a list of jpegs in files.lis then something like for file in `cat files.lis `; do echo ffmpeg -options $file ; done should do the trick. If the ffmpeg encoding is complex then it might be cleaner to code a simple script

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

2007-06-04 Thread Dominic Forrest
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

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

2007-06-04 Thread 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 -

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

2007-06-04 Thread Martyn
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Converting many .jpgs to mpeg4 without using wildcards

2007-06-04 Thread Kris Marsh
On 6/4/07, Dominic Forrest [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

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

2007-06-04 Thread Dominic Forrest
OK - apologies if I was somewhat vague in my requirements! 1) There is a directory structure with very many (several thousand) directories containing a large amount of .jpg files. 2) I have a perl script that runs periodically and using criteria stored in a mysql database identifies a