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 ;)



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