Hi Joe, On Mon, 2001-12-31 at 18:28, joe briggs wrote: > Specifically, from motion I need to grab & > process frames for motion activity, etc. You don't need MPEG for that.... gsyp (http://gspy.sf.net) or mjpegtools' lav2yuv in scene detection mode (http://mjpeg.sf.net) can do simple scene motion detection... The mjpegtools also have some advanced mpeg motion compensation code (used in our MPEG encoder mpeg2enc) but this only gets realtime when you have a very fast CPU, mpeg2enc isn't the fastest MPEG encoder around (the resulting MPEG movies are excellent, though). Ronald -- - .-. - /V\ | Ronald Bultje <rbultje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> - // \\ | Running: Linux 2.2.19 and OpenBSD 2.8 - /( )\ | http://ronald.bitfreak.net/ - ^^-^^