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<span class="application">MEncoder</span> is capable of creating movies from one
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or more JPEG, PNG or TGA files. With simple framecopy it can create MJPEG
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(Motion JPEG), MPNG (Motion PNG) or MTGA (Motion TGA) files.
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</p><div class="orderedlist"><p class="title"><b>Explanation of the process:</b></p><ol type="1"><li><p>
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<span class="application">MEncoder</span> <span class="emphasis"><em>decodes</em></span> the input image(s) with
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<code class="systemitem">libjpeg</code> (when decoding PNGs, it
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will use <code class="systemitem">libpng</code>).
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<span class="application">MEncoder</span> then feeds the decoded image to the
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chosen video compressor (DivX4, XviD, FFmpeg msmpeg4, etc.).
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</p></li></ol></div><p><b>Examples.�</b>
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The explanation of the <tt class="option">-mf</tt> option is in the man page.
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</p><div class="informalexample"><p>
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Creating an MPEG-4 file from all the JPEG files in the current directory:
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</p><pre class="screen">
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mencoder mf://*.jpg -mf w=800:h=600:fps=25:type=jpg -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4 -oac copy -o <em class="replaceable"><code>output.avi</code></em>
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</p><div class="informalexample"><p>
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Creating an MPEG-4 file from some JPEG files in the current directory:
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</p><pre class="screen">
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mencoder mf://<em class="replaceable"><code>frame001.jpg,frame002.jpg</code></em> -mf w=800:h=600:fps=25:type=jpg -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4 -oac copy -o <em class="replaceable"><code>output.avi</code></em>
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</p><div class="informalexample"><p>
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Creating an MPEG-4 file from explicit list of JPEG files (list.txt in current directory
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contains the list of files to use as source, one per line):
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</p><pre class="screen">
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mencoder mf://<em class="replaceable"><code>@list.txt</code></em> -mf w=800:h=600:fps=25:type=jpg \
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-ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:mbd=2:trell -oac copy -o <em class="replaceable"><code>output.avi</code></em>
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</p><div class="informalexample"><p>
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Creating a Motion JPEG (MJPEG) file from all the JPEG files in the current
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</p><pre class="screen">
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mencoder mf://*.jpg -mf w=800:h=600:fps=25:type=jpg -ovc copy -oac copy -o <em class="replaceable"><code>output.avi</code></em>
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</p><div class="informalexample"><p>
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Creating an uncompressed file from all the PNG files in the current directory:
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</p><pre class="screen">
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mencoder mf://*.png -mf w=800:h=600:fps=25:type=png -ovc raw -oac copy -o <em class="replaceable"><code>output.avi</code></em>
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</p><div class="note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><h3 class="title">Note</h3><p>
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Width must be integer multiple of 4, it is a limitation of the RAW RGB AVI format.
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</p><div class="informalexample"><p>
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Creating a Motion PNG (MPNG) file from all the PNG files in the current
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</p><pre class="screen">
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mencoder mf://*.png -mf w=800:h=600:fps=25:type=png -ovc copy -oac copy -o <em class="replaceable"><code>output.avi</code></em> </pre><p>
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</p><div class="informalexample"><p>
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Creating a Motion TGA (MTGA) file from all the TGA files in the current
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mencoder mf://*.tga -mf w=800:h=600:fps=25:type=tga -ovc copy -oac copy -o <em class="replaceable"><code>output.avi</code></em></pre><p>
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