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authorBrian Olson <icic@bolson.org>2012-02-27 10:27:17 +0100
committerMichael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>2012-03-30 00:03:41 +0200
commit0be130e37bfafd6022edd27833f04a0b6cee2f02 (patch)
tree99a88346de3b702d8b183040f52b846d5542cd48 /doc/ffmpeg.texi
parentd61ef05bc527a9375de5b70acc7125d2bd1bd473 (diff)
img2: glob matching for image series
Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
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@@ -1077,7 +1077,11 @@ ffmpeg -f image2 -i foo-%03d.jpeg -r 12 -s WxH foo.avi
The syntax @code{foo-%03d.jpeg} specifies to use a decimal number
composed of three digits padded with zeroes to express the sequence
number. It is the same syntax supported by the C printf function, but
-only formats accepting a normal integer are suitable.
+only formats accepting a normal integer are suitable. When importing
+an image sequence, -i also accepts shell-like wildcard patterns such as
+@code{foo-*.jpeg}, @code{foo-???.jpeg} or @code{foo-00[234]*.jpeg}.
+It will probably be necessary to escape these patterns so they do not
+get interpreted by your shell.
@item
You can put many streams of the same type in the output: