title: Trying to convert bunch of jpegs into a movie
body: <p>I have 28,000 images I need to convert into a movie.
  I tried </p>
  
  <pre><code>mencoder mf://*.jpg -mf w=640:h=480:fps=30:type=jpg -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=msmpeg4v2 -nosound -o ../output-msmpeg4v2.avi
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But it seems to crap out at 7500 frames.</p>
  
  <p>The files are named
  webcam_2007-04-16_070804.jpg
  webcam_2007-04-16_071004.jpg
  webcam_2007-04-16_071204.jpg
  webcam_2007-04-16_071404.jpg
  Up to march 2008 or so.</p>
  
  <p>Is there another way I can pass the filenames to mencoder so it doesn't stop part way?</p>
  
  <pre><code>MEncoder 2:1.0~rc2-0ubuntu13 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
  CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz (Family: 15, Model: 2, Stepping: 7)
  CPUflags: Type: 15 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
  Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
  success: format: 16  data: 0x0 - 0x0
  MF file format detected.
  [mf] search expr: *.jpg
  [mf] number of files: 28617 (114468)
  VIDEO:  [IJPG]  640x480  24bpp  30.000 fps    0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
  [V] filefmt:16  fourcc:0x47504A49  size:640x480  fps:30.00  ftime:=0.0333
  Opening video filter: [expand osd=1]
  Expand: -1 x -1, -1 ; -1, osd: 1, aspect: 0.000000, round: 1
  ==========================================================================
  Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
  Selected video codec: [ffmjpeg] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MJPEG decoder)
  ==========================================================================
  VDec: vo config request - 640 x 480 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
  VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 3)
  Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
  videocodec: libavcodec (640x480 fourcc=3234504d [MP42])
  Writing header...
  ODML: Aspect information not (yet?) available or unspecified, not writing vprp header.
  Writing header...
  ODML: Aspect information not (yet?) available or unspecified, not writing vprp header.
  Pos: 251.3s   7539f ( 0%) 47.56fps Trem:   0min   0mb  A-V:0.000 [1202:0]
  Flushing video frames.
  Writing index...
  Writing header...
  ODML: Aspect information not (yet?) available or unspecified, not writing vprp header.
  
  Video stream: 1202.480 kbit/s  (150310 B/s)  size: 37772908 bytes  251.300 secs  7539     frames
  </code></pre>