P: DNG Converter: Enable JPG conversion

Maybe  3+ years is already their answer, Gunther?

By the way,  LR's URL handler lets a 3rd party tool generate DNGs from JPEGs. External control might be harder with Bridge/ACR, but Photoshop would work, or maybe the DNG SDK contains an uncompiled version of the Converter? But whatever tool you use, I'd be surprised if Adobe altered the DNG Converter. Maybe there's a German equivalent of our expression "barking up the wrong tree"?

John, Lightroom and ACR aren't tools that can be well launched and automated from 3rd party programs. Please trust me that for the time lapse community my request would be very important. It's open now for more then 3 years, and I/we still have the hope that Adobe will consider it. If there would be another solution, I'd for sure have considered it. Let's wait what Adobe has to say.

DNG Converter is the batch tool specifically intended to convert raw files to DNG because of issues with proprietary raw files. LR and ACR also having that capability doesn't make it logical to duplicate other capabilities in DNG Converter. Have you looked at automating Adobe's Media Encoder? Or at automating LR?

DNG Converter is the batch tool to convert files to DNG. Since it is already possible to wrap TIFF and JPG into DNG in ACR and LR (the GUI tools) it would only be a logic conclusion to have this same feature too in the DNG Converter, since it's the designated tool for batch conversions.

Why must it be done by DNG Converter? DNG Converter does have a very specific purpose, so I would be pretty surprised if Adobe changed it for this.

Exactly, I've to trigger it seemlessly in background from my software.

You say "batch functionalities" but to you is the important thing that you want to automate DNG Converter? Because batches can be output by ACR and LR, and LR exports/imports can be scripted as you know.

Let me explain again. For our time lapse purposes, it doesn't help that Lightroom can wrap jpgs into DNGs. ACR doesn't help either.
Our request is that we need this same feature in the Adobe DNG Converter in order to be able to use its batch functionalities.
TIFF and JPG support for the DNG converter would be really, really useful. It would allow us to use JPG and TIFF sequences exactly the same way as RAW files, when working on time lapse sequences with LRTimelapse. For the user the conversion to DNG would happen totally transparent in background.
@7730116 It would be really helpful, if you could find a way to put this on the agenda. I'm here to talk about further details at any time. Thank you in advance. You or someone from your team can reach me via info(at)lrtimelapse(dot)com too to discuss this.

And in ACR, there is a big Save button in the bottom left corner. DNG is one of the options.  LR can save DNGs from JPEGs via its Export function.

Adriana, the problem is to turn jpegs into DNG. Not the other way round...