[Libav-user] Encoding depth video from Kinect

2012-02-09 Thread Daniel Henell
Hello! I'm working on a project where we would like to transfer RGBD video captured with a Kinect from our users to a server hosted by us for research purposes. It will be used by users in homes with normal Internet connections and thus it has be compressed somehow so that it won't take hours to

Re: [Libav-user] Encoding depth video from Kinect

2012-02-09 Thread Carl Eugen Hoyos
Daniel Henell henell@... writes: However there doesn't seem to be any video codec that can handle 8 bit grayscale video. grep GRAY16 libavcodec/*.c shows jpegls, ffv1 and libopenjpeg as codecs that do support 8 bit grayscale video. Carl EUgen ___

Re: [Libav-user] Encoding depth video from Kinect

2012-02-09 Thread Carl Eugen Hoyos
Daniel Henell henell@... writes: I tried encoding the depth frames as ffv1 using the following command: ffmpeg -r10 -i data/d-%06d.pgm -sameq -vsync1 -vcodec ffv1 vid.mov However I got the following output and errors: Incompatible pixel format 'gray16le' for codec 'ffv1', auto-selecting