From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0; T312461) Description of problem: I recently upgraded a machine from RedHat 7.1 to RedHat 7.2 and discovered that my ability to make mpeg movies out of a series of jpeg images is no longer working. I am using the same parameter files from the 7.1 system and ppmtompeg is not complaining about any directives. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Under 7.1: netpbm-9.9-5 Under 7.2: netpbm-9.14-2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Grab several jpeg images of the same size and place them in a working directory. 2. Create a parameter file (see below for the one I am using) 3. run "ppmtompeg /path/to/your/param/file". Actual Results: Program begins to display information about the parameter file, then stops at a command prompt. Here is actual output: [movie@solo scripts]$ ppmtompeg conf/cam1.cfg MPEG ENCODER STATS (1.5b) ------------------------ TIME STARTED: Fri Jan 25 17:00:07 2002 MACHINE: unknown FIRST FILE: /home/movie/cache/cam1/lake.0001.jpg LAST FILE: /home/movie/cache/cam1/lake.2000.jpg PATTERN: ibbpbbpbbpbbpbb GOP_SIZE: 10 SLICES PER FRAME: 1 RANGE: +/-10 PIXEL SEARCH: FULL [movie@solo scripts]$ Expected Results: Under RedHat 7.1, the results would look like this: MPEG ENCODER STATS (1.5b) ------------------------ TIME STARTED: Tue Jan 22 22:00:03 2002 MACHINE: unknown FIRST FILE: /home/movie/cache/cam1/lake.0001.jpg LAST FILE: /home/movie/cache/cam1/lake.2000.jpg PATTERN: ibbpbbpbbpbb GOP_SIZE: 16 SLICES PER FRAME: 1 RANGE: +/-10 PIXEL SEARCH: FULL PSEARCH: EXHAUSTIVE BSEARCH: CROSS2 QSCALE: 8 10 25 REFERENCE FRAME: DECODED Creating new GOP (closed = T) before frame 0 FRAME 0 (I): 0 seconds (1288320 bits/s output) FRAME 3 (P): I BLOCKS: 121; P BLOCKS: 126 SKIPPED: 53 (0 seconds) FRAME 1 (B): I BLOCKS: 4; B BLOCKS: 226 SKIPPED: 70 (1 seconds) FRAME 2 (B): I BLOCKS: 0; B BLOCKS: 235 SKIPPED: 65 (1 seconds) FRAME 6 (P): I BLOCKS: 93; P BLOCKS: 171 SKIPPED: 36 (0 seconds) (snip) Additional info: Here is the parameter file I am using: OUTPUT /home/movie/cache/cam1.mpg INPUT_DIR /home/movie/cache/cam1 INPUT lake.*.jpg [0001-2000] END_INPUT BASE_FILE_FORMAT JPEG PATTERN IBBPBBPBBPBBPBB PIXEL FULL IQSCALE 6 PQSCALE 6 BQSCALE 6 GOP_SIZE 10 SLICES_PER_FRAME 1 RANGE 10 PSEARCH_ALG EXHAUSTIVE BSEARCH_ALG CROSS2 REFERENCE_FRAME ORIGINAL INPUT_CONVERT * FORCE_ENCODE_LAST_FRAME
FYI - I have tested this on three different RedHat 7.2 machines (all i386- based) and have had the same problem.
Verified and reproduce here. This is really strange. Will check if this problem persits with the latest netpbm release. Read ya, Phil
OK, after updating to netpbm-9.24 it works again. Updated version should be available via rawhide real soon now... :) Read ya, Phil