How do I feed FFMPEG with JPEG images via Named Pipe?

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Normally you can feed FFMPEG with images from the file system using -f image2, but this doesn't work when you have a named pipe as input: FFMPEG complatins that "index in the range 0-4" could not be found. Obviously FFMPEG wants to have images named 0...x, which is not possible with named pipes.

What is the right way to do this with named pipes?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 18 '13 at 11:08

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You would probably need image2pipe instead of image2.

I find it strange that it isn't documented online, but it's listed in ffmpeg -formats anyway.

answered Feb 18 '13 at 11:08

slhck

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How do I feed FFMPEG with JPEG images via Named Pipe?

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