Hello all, sorry for the cross-posting,
Back to the old codec issue here. I was hapiliy working with photo-jpg compressed quicktime files for the last couple years. Now I'm working on an installation that I'm aiming to make using only open-source software.
My "orginal" footage is a sequence of 300,000 jpeg frames (80% quality) And all I need is a video file that matches the jpg quality of the frames, and most importantly is seekable and loadable in Gem.
So what I want to do is create a quicktime file, using photo-jpeg as the codec. Simple eh? hmmm.
My first try was:
ffmpeg -i %d.jpg -sameq -vcodec ljpeg output.mov
Which created the file fine (where, FYI, quicktime pro died miserably) but was very big (which is ok) but I could not get vlc,mplayer,totem to load it. ffmpeg printed something about "MS style codec tag" when creating the file. so I also tried:
ffmpeg -i %d.jpg -sameq -vcodec mjpeg output.mov
which did about the same thing, so I gave up on quicktime and tried a couple AVIs:
ffmpeg -i %d.jpg -sameq -vcodec mjpeg output.avi ffmpeg -i %d.jpg -sameq -vcodec ljpeg output.avi
A little better, many of my Gem decoders loaded the file, but not a single one was able to make it seekable, I tried all the decoders... all return -1 frames.
So right now I'm building a mpeg2 to try out, though I know decoding is going to be less efficient.
So my final questions are:
1. What codec should I use for 300,000 frames (14GB or so) and is well suited to build from jpg frames? What container?
2. How can I create the [answer to #1] using ffmpeg or some other linux land app?
Thank you!
Oh and Johannes, I do have the v4l_compat module loaded, so I don't know why xawtv reads my v4l2 video stream but Gem does not. Any ideas?
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