windows - Input parameters to FFMPEG

Question

I am trying to make an FFMPEG script that relied on a glob input pattern from Linux to Windows. Unfortunately that is not supported so I am looking for an alternative. I do not want to have to rename or copy the files every time I run the script because the files are used elsewhere and I cannot rename them and I would like to avoid duplication or unnecessary temporary files.

Are globs numerically sequential named images my only option here? Ideally I would like to input a list of image paths to FFMPEG as a substitute for ffmpeg -i *.jpg

Answer 1

The workarounds are to prepare a text file with the names and use the concat demuxer.

Or you can use image2pipe

cat *.jpg | ffmpeg -f image2pipe -framerate 25 -i - out.mp4