On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 08:27 +0200, Martin Ahnelöv wrote:
Hi! I'm fiddling around a bit with PDP, and it's great! Just one thing: How can I convert my non-mov videos to a pdp_qt-compatible format with a linux-based tool? I've tried, like, all codecs I could think of in ffmpeg without any succes. How do you do it?
hi
since i don't know ffmpeg that much, i can't tell you how to do it with ffmpeg, but i know how with mencoder. from my experience, movies in the mov container and encoded with mjpeg seem to be the most portable ones. mjpeg is a) a simple codec and b) it does only intraframe compression, which is faster to decode and also makes it easier to access frames randomly.
the command line i am using:
mencoder input.<whatever> -o output.mov -nosound -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mjpeg -of lavf -lavfopts format=mov
not only pdp, but also [pix_film] from Gem and [#in] from gridflow seem to like this format.
roman
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