Turning images into videos with ffmpeg - ffmpeg

Question

I asked this on another forum but never had any luck. I found the following command online that is supposed to create a video from images(duration of 5 seconds each) using FFmpeg.
ffmpeg -f image2 -r 1/5 -i img%03d.png -vcodec libx264 out.mp4
I have ran that and I have two images named img001.png and img002.png, however when I play out.mp4, it's only a 5 second clip with img001.png being played. What's really strange as well, is in my Windows Media Player, it thinks it's 10 seconds long (2 images # 10 seconds), but when the gauge gets half way through(5 seconds) the video, it ends.
Any suggestions of what could be going on?
I also tried a bunch of other commands I found online but never had any luck. They would end up showing both images, but the first one would just flash for a fraction of a second, or some other ones would do the same thing would happen to the second image at the end of the video.
I have it ImageMagick installed into XAMPP on my Windows Vista PC. I can provide my command line output from the command if needed.
Edit: Added command line output
C:\xampp\htdocs>ffmpeg -f image2 -r 1/5 -i img%03d.png -vcodec libx264 out.mp4
ffmpeg version N-50911-g9efcfbe Copyright (c) 2000-2013 the FFmpeg developers
built on Mar 13 2013 21:26:48 with gcc 4.7.2 (GCC)
configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --disable-w32threads --enable-av
isynth --enable-bzlib --enable-fontconfig --enable-frei0r --enable-gnutls --enab
le-libass --enable-libbluray --enable-libcaca --enable-libfreetype --enable-libg
sm --enable-libilbc --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libo
pencore-amrwb --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libopus --enable-librtmp --enable-li
bschroedinger --enable-libsoxr --enable-libspeex --enable-libtheora --enable-lib
twolame --enable-libvo-aacenc --enable-libvo-amrwbenc --enable-libvorbis --enabl
e-libvpx --enable-libx264 --enable-libxavs --enable-libxvid --enable-zlib
libavutil 52. 19.100 / 52. 19.100
libavcodec 55. 0.100 / 55. 0.100
libavformat 55. 0.100 / 55. 0.100
libavdevice 54. 4.100 / 54. 4.100
libavfilter 3. 45.103 / 3. 45.103
libswscale 2. 2.100 / 2. 2.100
libswresample 0. 17.102 / 0. 17.102
libpostproc 52. 2.100 / 52. 2.100
Input #0, image2, from 'img%03d.png':
Duration: 00:00:10.00, start: 0.000000, bitrate: N/A
Stream #0:0: Video: png, rgb24, 800x600 [SAR 1:1 DAR 4:3], 0.20 tbr, 0.20 tb
n, 0.20 tbc
[libx264 # 0032cae0] using SAR=1/1
[libx264 # 0032cae0] using cpu capabilities: MMX2 SSE2Slow SlowCTZ
[libx264 # 0032cae0] profile High 4:4:4 Predictive, level 3.1, 4:4:4 8-bit
[libx264 # 0032cae0] 264 - core 130 r2274 c832fe9 - H.264/MPEG-4 AVC codec - Cop
yright 2003-2013 - http://www.videolan.org/x264.html - options: cabac=1 ref=3 de
block=1:0:0 analyse=0x3:0x113 me=hex subme=7 psy=1 psy_rd=1.00:0.00 mixed_ref=1
me_range=16 chroma_me=1 trellis=1 8x8dct=1 cqm=0 deadzone=21,11 fast_pskip=1 chr
oma_qp_offset=4 threads=3 lookahead_threads=1 sliced_threads=0 nr=0 decimate=1 i
nterlaced=0 bluray_compat=0 constrained_intra=0 bframes=3 b_pyramid=2 b_adapt=1
b_bias=0 direct=1 weightb=1 open_gop=0 weightp=2 keyint=250 keyint_min=1 scenecu
t=40 intra_refresh=0 rc_lookahead=40 rc=crf mbtree=1 crf=23.0 qcomp=0.60 qpmin=0
qpmax=69 qpstep=4 ip_ratio=1.40 aq=1:1.00
Output #0, mp4, to 'out.mp4':
Metadata:
encoder : Lavf55.0.100
Stream #0:0: Video: h264 ([33][0][0][0] / 0x0021), yuv444p, 800x600 [SAR 1:1
DAR 4:3], q=-1--1, 16384 tbn, 0.20 tbc
Stream mapping:
Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (png -> libx264)
Press [q] to stop, [?] for help
frame= 2 fps=0.0 q=2621023.0 Lsize= 37kB time=00:00:10.00 bitrate= 30.0
kbits/s
video:36kB audio:0kB subtitle:0 global headers:0kB muxing overhead 2.142993%
[libx264 # 0032cae0] frame I:1 Avg QP:11.18 size: 17627
[libx264 # 0032cae0] frame P:1 Avg QP:11.45 size: 18415
[libx264 # 0032cae0] mb I I16..4: 18.3% 69.5% 12.3%
[libx264 # 0032cae0] mb P I16..4: 11.6% 60.1% 9.7% P16..4: 8.9% 6.6% 2.2%
0.0% 0.0% skip: 0.8%
[libx264 # 0032cae0] 8x8 transform intra:71.4% inter:67.1%
[libx264 # 0032cae0] coded y,u,v intra: 57.0% 24.1% 22.3% inter: 42.6% 25.7% 16.
4%
[libx264 # 0032cae0] i16 v,h,dc,p: 28% 50% 15% 8%
[libx264 # 0032cae0] i8 v,h,dc,ddl,ddr,vr,hd,vl,hu: 16% 39% 28% 2% 2% 2% 3%
3% 4%
[libx264 # 0032cae0] i4 v,h,dc,ddl,ddr,vr,hd,vl,hu: 14% 53% 23% 1% 2% 2% 3%
0% 2%
[libx264 # 0032cae0] Weighted P-Frames: Y:0.0% UV:0.0%
[libx264 # 0032cae0] kb/s:28.83
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Answer 1

I think your only problem is that you're not telling ffmpeg what output format to use.
try ffmpeg -f image2 -r 1/5 -i img%03d.png -vcodec libx264 -pix_fmt yuv420p out.mp4
Also remember that the images have to be the same size. You'll need to preprocess them to the same size if they're not.
good luck