On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 08:19 +0100, Martyn wrote: > When your perl script runs have it make a working directory and then > symlink (ln -s) every file that matches the criteria into the working > directory. Then at the end of the run you'll have a directory with all > the matching files in it, and you can use ffmpeg on it with a wildcard > for the input files. When you've created the movie simply delete the > symlinks. I've used a similar method in the past and it worked for me. > By symlinking the files instead of copying them you avoid using up > disk space and the operation should me much quicker.
Hi! I would advocate this, as I just read this thread, and this was the first method that popped into my head. I can't think of an alternative, either and it's nice and simple. I'm sure any modern file-system could cope with this kind of large operation. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
