1pfsinmulti(1)               General Commands Manual              pfsinmulti(1)
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NAME

6       pfsinmulti  -  read  several streams of frames and write pfs streams to
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SYNOPSIS

10       pfsinmulti   pfsinmulti   <file>   [--frames   f:s:t]   [--skip-frames]
11       [<file>...] -- command @1 @2 [@3 ...]
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DESCRIPTION

14       Use  this command to read several animation sequences and write them to
15       pfsstreams. This command is useful with those pfs programs, which  take
16       several  pfs  streams  as arguments. For example, the following command
17       can be used to combine  two  animations  so  that  there  are  stitched
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20         pfsinmulti anim_a-%04d.hdr anim_b-%04d.hdr -- pfscat @1 @2
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22       arguments  @1  and @2 are replaced with named pipes for anim_a-%04d.hdr
23       and anim_b-%04d.hdr frames respectively. command argument is obligatory
24       and  it must be preceded with '--'. There should be as many @1, @2, ..,
25       @n arguments as there are animation sequences given as input.
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27       Arguments --frames, --skip-frames and other  options  are  handled  the
28       same  way as in pfsin program. Also pfsinmulti recognizes the same file
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31       Technically, pfsinmulti  creates  a  named  pipe  for  each  pfsstream,
32       replaces  @n  arguments  with  the names of those pipes and deletes the
33       pipes when command finishes.
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EXAMPLES

37       pfsinmulti image1.hdr image2.hdr -- cat @1 @2 | pfsview
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39              Does the same as 'pfsv image1.hdr image2.hdr' but in  much  more
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SEE ALSO

44       pfsin(1)
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BUGS

47       This  command currently does not handle multiple frames given with a %d
48       pattern in case of LDR formats: JPEG, PNG, PNM.
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50       Please  report  bugs  and  comments  to  Rafal  Mantiuk   <mantiuk@mpi-
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