Trying to convert JPEG to MPEG file, Delegate failed ffmpeg

[jimmydean]

Simple (or one would seem) convert "file1.jpg" "file1mpeg"

Result:
convert: Delegate failed `"ffmpeg" -v -1 -i "%M%%d.jpg" "%u.%m" 2> "%Z"' @ delegate.c/InvokeDelegate/1015.

zero byte file "file1.mpeg". I just installed ImageMagick-6.5.1-8 rpm on RHEL5. Any help would be great, thanks.

[fmw42]

did you install any MPEG delegate library

see http://www.imagemagick.org/download/delegates/

Also try 6.5.1-9 as 6.5.1-8 had compile problems for me

[jimmydean]

did you install any MPEG delegate library

see http://www.imagemagick.org/download/delegates/

Also try 6.5.1-9 as 6.5.1-8 had compile problems for me

I installed ImageMagick-6.5.1-9.i386.rpm, but it displays as ImageMagick.i386 0:6.5.1-8.

What Libraries do I need? I have no idea.

[fmw42]

what version do you get from

convert -list configure


I don't use MPG, so am not sure, but you might need mpeg2dec-0.2.0.tar.gz from the delegate list. You will have to download it and see what its install notes say as to whether that might be needed.

[magick]

We recently switched from MPEG2 to ffmpeg. Install ffmpeg to read / write MPEG images with ImageMagick.

[jimmydean]

So I have everything installed (or so it seems) now.

I am trying to convert a jpeg file to a single frame mpeg file. If I do a simple "convert sample.jpg movie.mpg" it creates a file.

Original file was 36269 bytes, new file is 6144 (not zero) but the file does not display using mplayer. Are there additional steps, or something else I should use?

Thanks for the help.

[magick]

mplayer apparently does not like 1 frame mpeg images. We tried ffplay and it worked without complaint.

[jimmydean]

Good to know, I will give that a shot. Thanks again for the help, it would be awesome to get this to work.

[jimmydean]

So should the mpeg file be smaller than the original jpeg file? ffplay isn't displaying it either at the moment, but it might be a problem with ffplay. The image isn't displaying in any player at this point. Is there another method or option I should be using?

"convert bike.jpg bike.mpeg" seems straight forward.

[nuunkotad]

hello.
same problem here.
invoking:
convert 001.jpg 001.mpg

gives out:

convert: Delegate failed `"ffmpeg" -v -1 -i "%M%%d.jpg" "%u.%m" 2> "%Z"' @ magick/delegate.c/InvokeDelegate/1015.

system:
xubuntu jaunty 64-bit
ImageMagick 6.4.5 2009-06-04 Q16 OpenMP
FFmpeg 0.5-svn17737+3:0.svn20090303-1ubuntu6

any solution?
thank you.

[nuunkotad]

so the problem was that image size was too big?
when image resized from 2816x2112 to 704x528 it makes movie file.

but still have problem that only first image is added to movie.

thank you.

so setting '-delay 100' made 3sec movie and i can see that last 2 seconds image is going worse, and still only one image added.
btw trying to make slideshow of some 40 images

if anyone have an solutin to my problem i will be very glad.

[ror_dev]

Hi everyone!

Stuck with this porblem too.

The error looks like:

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delegate failed `"ffmpeg" -v -1 -mbd rd -trellis 2 -cmp 2 -subcmp 2 -g 300 -i "%M%%d.jpg" "%u.%m" 2> "%Z"' @ error/delegate.c/InvokeDelegate/1065

Is there any solution? How to convert jpeg to mpeg while jpgs is 885x585px? If I reduce resolution it works fine, but I need exactly this resolution!