How to play an image sequence with mplayer?

[Selur]

I'm trying to playback the Elephant Dreams png images using mplayer.
Using:

"G:\Hybrid\64bit\mplayer.exe" -v mf://"H:/sequence/ED-360-png/*.png" -mf type=png:fps=25:w=640:h=480 -forcedsubsonly -nosub -noautosub -fps 25.000 -vo direct3d -lavdopts threads=8  -mc 0 -nosound

I get:

MPlayer SVN-r38010-7.2.0 (C) 2000-2017 MPlayer Team
CPU vendor name: AuthenticAMD  max cpuid level: 13
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Eight-Core Processor          (Family: 23, Model: 1, Stepping: 1)
extended cpuid-level: 31
extended cache-info: 33579328
Detected cache-line size is 64 bytes
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNowExt: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 SSE3: 1 SSSE3: 1 SSE4: 1 SSE4.2: 1 AVX: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
get_path('codecs.conf') -> 'G:/Hybrid/64bit/mplayer/codecs.conf'
Reading optional codecs config file G:/Hybrid/64bit/mplayer/codecs.conf: No such file or directory
Reading optional codecs config file /local64/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: No such file or directory
Using built-in default codecs.conf.
init_freetype
Using MMX (with tiny bit MMX2) Optimized OnScreenDisplay
get_path('fonts') -> 'G:/Hybrid/64bit/mplayer/fonts'
Configuration: --prefix=/local64 --bindir=/local64/bin-video --cc=gcc --extra-cflags=-DPTW32_STATIC_LIB -O3 -std=gnu99 -DMODPLUG_STATIC --extra-libs=-llzma -liconv -lws2_32 -lpthread -lwinpthread -lpng -lwinmm --extra-ldflags=-Wl,--allow-multiple-definition --enable-static --enable-runtime-cpudetection --disable-gif --disable-cddb --disable-faac --disable-faac-lavc --with-dvdread-config=/mingw64/bin/pkg-config --static dvdread --with-freetype-config=/mingw64/bin/pkg-config --static freetype2 --with-dvdnav-config=/mingw64/bin/pkg-config --static dvdnav
CommandLine: '-v' 'mf://H:/sequence/ED-360-png/*.png' '-mf' 'type=png:fps=25:w=640:h=480' '-forcedsubsonly' '-nosub' '-noautosub' '-fps' '25.000' '-vo' 'direct3d' '-lavdopts' 'threads=8' '-mc' '0' '-nosound'
Using Windows native timing
get_path('input.conf') -> 'G:/Hybrid/64bit/mplayer/input.conf'
Reading optional input config file G:/Hybrid/64bit/mplayer/input.conf: No such file or directory
Reading optional input config file /local64/etc/mplayer/input.conf: No such file or directory
Falling back on default (hardcoded) input config
get_path('*.png.conf') -> 'G:/Hybrid/64bit/mplayer/*.png.conf'

Playing mf://H:/sequence/ED-360-png/*.png.
WINSOCK2 init: 0
STREAM: [mf] mf://H:/sequence/ED-360-png/*.png
STREAM: Description: Multiple files input
STREAM: Author: Benjamin Zores, Albeu
STREAM: Comment:
MF file format detected.
[mf] search expr: H:/sequence/ED-360-png/*.png
[mf] number of files: 15691 (125528)
==> Found video stream: 0
VIDEO:  [MPNG]  640x480  24bpp  25.000 fps    0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
[V] filefmt:16  fourcc:0x474E504D  size:640x480  fps:25.000  ftime:=0.0400
<vo_direct3d>Setting backbuffer dimensions to (5120x2880).
<vo_direct3d>device_caps_power2_only 0, device_caps_square_only 0
<vo_direct3d>device_texture_sys 0
<vo_direct3d>max_texture_width 16384, max_texture_height 16384
vo: win32: running at 5120x2880 with depth 32
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
libavcodec version 58.8.100 (internal)
Configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-postproc
INFO: libavcodec init OK!
Selected video codec: [ffpng] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg PNG)
==========================================================================
Audio: no sound
Freeing 0 unused audio chunks.
FPS forced to be 25.000  (ftime: 0.040).
Starting playback...
ds_fill_buffer: EOF reached (stream: video)
ds_fill_buffer: EOF reached (stream: video)
ds_fill_buffer: EOF reached (stream: video)
ds_fill_buffer: EOF reached (stream: video)
ds_fill_buffer: EOF reached (stream: video)
ds_fill_buffer: EOF reached (stream: video)
ds_fill_buffer: EOF reached (stream: video)
ds_fill_buffer: EOF reached (stream: video)
ds_fill_buffer: EOF reached (stream: video)
V:   0.0   0/  0 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0
ds_fill_buffer: EOF reached (stream: video)
V:   0.0   0/  0 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0
ds_fill_buffer: EOF reached (stream: video)
V:   0.0   0/  0 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0
EOF code: 1

Uninit video: ffmpeg
WINSOCK2 uninit
<vo_direct3d>uninit called.
<vo_direct3d>uninit_d3d called.
<vo_direct3d>destroy_d3d_surfaces called.
<vo_direct3d>Stopping Direct3D.
vo: win32: uninit

Exiting... (End of file)

Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

Cu Selur

[sneaker]

It works here with a simple mplayer "mf://[PATH]/*.png". Did you also try without all the other parameters? Does mplayer work for "normal" video files?

/edit:
Ok, peculiar behavior: it only works if I have the png's folder as the working directory.

[Selur]

Without the '-mf type=png:fps=25:w=640:h=480' it doesn't work either,..
without '-mf ..':

STREAM: [mf] mf://H:/sequence/ED-360-png/*.png
STREAM: Description: Multiple files input
STREAM: Author: Benjamin Zores, Albeu
STREAM: Comment:
MF file format detected.
[mf] search expr: H:/sequence/ED-360-png/*.png
[mf] number of files: 15691 (125528)


MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: demux_open
- MPlayer crashed by bad usage of CPU/FPU/RAM.
  Recompile MPlayer with --enable-debug and make a 'gdb' backtrace and
  disassembly. Details in DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports_what.html#bugreports_crash.
- MPlayer crashed. This shouldn't happen.
  It can be a bug in the MPlayer code _or_ in your drivers _or_ in your
  gcc version. If you think it's MPlayer's fault, please read
  DOCS/HTML/en/bugreports.html and follow the instructions there. We can't and
  won't help unless you provide this information when reporting a possible bug.

with just '-mf type:png':

Playing mf://H:/sequence/ED-360-png/*.png.
WINSOCK2 init: 0
STREAM: [mf] mf://H:/sequence/ED-360-png/*.png
STREAM: Description: Multiple files input
STREAM: Author: Benjamin Zores, Albeu
STREAM: Comment:
MF file format detected.
[mf] search expr: H:/sequence/ED-360-png/*.png
[mf] number of files: 15691 (125528)
==> Found video stream: 0
VIDEO:  [MPNG]  0x0  24bpp  25.000 fps    0.0 kbps ( 0.0 kbyte/s)
[V] filefmt:16  fourcc:0x474E504D  size:0x0  fps:25.000  ftime:=0.0400
<vo_direct3d>Setting backbuffer dimensions to (5120x2880).
<vo_direct3d>device_caps_power2_only 0, device_caps_square_only 0
<vo_direct3d>device_texture_sys 0
<vo_direct3d>max_texture_width 16384, max_texture_height 16384
vo: win32: running at 5120x2880 with depth 32
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
libavcodec version 58.8.100 (internal)
Configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-postproc
INFO: libavcodec init OK!
Selected video codec: [ffpng] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg PNG)
==========================================================================
Audio: no sound
Freeing 0 unused audio chunks.
FPS forced to be 25.000  (ftime: 0.040).
Starting playback...
ds_fill_buffer: EOF reached (stream: video)
ds_fill_buffer: EOF reached (stream: video)
ds_fill_buffer: EOF reached (stream: video)
ds_fill_buffer: EOF reached (stream: video)
ds_fill_buffer: EOF reached (stream: video)
ds_fill_buffer: EOF reached (stream: video)
ds_fill_buffer: EOF reached (stream: video)
ds_fill_buffer: EOF reached (stream: video)
ds_fill_buffer: EOF reached (stream: video)
V:   0.0   0/  0 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0
ds_fill_buffer: EOF reached (stream: video)
V:   0.0   0/  0 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0
ds_fill_buffer: EOF reached (stream: video)
V:   0.0   0/  0 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0
EOF code: 1

Uninit video: ffmpeg
WINSOCK2 uninit

Does mplayer work for "normal" video files?

Yes. Using for example:

"G:\Hybrid\64bit\mplayer.exe" "h:\1.m2ts" -forcedsubsonly -nosub -noautosub -fps 25.000 -vo direct3d -lavdopts threads=8  -mc 0 -nosound

works fine.

[sneaker]

See my edit.

[Selur]

Nice, find! Works here too if I set the working directory to the image folder and then call:

"G:\Hybrid\64bit\mplayer.exe" -v mf://*.png -mf type=png:fps=25:w=640:h=480 -forcedsubsonly -nosub -noautosub -fps 25.000 -vo direct3d -lavdopts threads=8  -mc 0 -nosound

Thanks!

Cu Selur