NAME

       pfsinmulti - read several streams of frames and write pfs streams to named pipes

SYNOPSIS

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

DESCRIPTION

       Use this command to read several animation sequences and write them to pfsstreams. This command is useful
       with  those pfs programs, which take several pfs streams as arguments. For example, the following command
       can be used to combine two animations so that there are stitched together:

         pfsinmulti anim_a-%04d.hdr anim_b-%04d.hdr -- pfscat @1 @2

       arguments @1 and @2 are  replaced  with  named  pipes  for  anim_a-%04d.hdr  and  anim_b-%04d.hdr  frames
       respectively.  command  argument is obligatory and it must be preceded with '--'. There should be as many
       @1, @2, .., @n arguments as there are animation sequences given as input.

       Arguments --frames, --skip-frames and other options are handled the same way as in  pfsin  program.  Also
       pfsinmulti recognizes the same file formats as pfsin.

       Technically,  pfsinmulti creates a named pipe for each pfsstream, replaces @n arguments with the names of
       those pipes and deletes the pipes when command finishes.

EXAMPLES

       pfsinmulti image1.hdr image2.hdr -- cat @1 @2 | pfsview

              Does the same as 'pfsv image1.hdr image2.hdr' but in much more sophisticated way.

SEE ALSO

       pfsin(1)

BUGS

       This command currently does not handle multiple frames given with a %d pattern in case  of  LDR  formats:
       JPEG, PNG, PNM.

       Please report bugs and comments to Rafal Mantiuk <mantiuk@mpi-sb.mpg.de>.

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