[theora] ffmpeg2theora: issue converting from a png image list

[Ondrej Certik]

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Michael
Opdenacker<michael at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> Hi Jan, all
>
> I am trying to generate a video introduction with a fade-in / fade-out
> effect. To do this with ffmpeg2theora only, I generated a list of PNG
> images: img001.png, img002.png... img299.png
>
> The ffmpeg2theora man page says:
>
> Encode a series of images:
>         ffmpeg2theora frame%06d.png -o output.ogv
>
> That's exactly what I tried with the latest 0.24 release of ffmpeg2theora:
>
> ffmpeg2theora-0.24.linux32.bin img-%03d.png -o output.ogv
> Input #0, image2, from 'img-%03d.png':
>  Duration: 00:00:12.00, start: 0.000000, bitrate: N/A
>    Stream #0.0: Video: png, yuv420p, 1280x720, 25 tbr, 25 tbn, 25 tbc
>  Resize: 1280x720
> Segmentation fault

Indeed, the same happens for me too. But try this:

ffmpeg -i img-%03d.png -r 15 -vcodec copy output.avi
ffmpeg2theora output.avi -o output.ogv

this works for me. Could someone please clarify if I am loosing any
quality in the first step? E.g. notice the "-vcodec copy" thing, also
it's *really* fast, e.g. just like if it just copied the images
without any compression. But I might be wrong.


Ondrej