Ronald Bultje wrote:
On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 10:51, Kevin Atkinson wrote:
Does that work with ANY AVI or QT format or just ones with MJPEG in them?
Since we only support MJPEG quicktime, it only works for MJPEG. All
other formats would require re-encoding anyway.
Um Why? Both QT and AVI are just wrapper formats. You can stick any
sort of codec you want to in it. Or do I misunderstand something here?
A generic utility that can combine, split, or convert any AVI/QT/MPEG
stream should be able to do this with no problem. That is what I am
looking for.
There *is* no such utility yet. GStreamer is trying to become such a
utility, but development of such a utility takes a long time. It isn't
as easy as you'd like it to be.
I won't argue with you here. However I am not interested in converting
from one codec to another, just converting between one wrapper format to
another.
GStreamer is on the good way, there's quite some sample applications
which work partly or fully, and there's another load of applications
currently being developped, some of which do exactly what you're looking
for (virtualdub-alike). But have patience, we aren't there just yet. For
now, mjpegtools is pretty much the only (set of) tool(s) which can do
what you're asking for.
Except that the world doesn't revolve around MJPEG ;)
