[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC/PATCH]Interlaced lossless

[Steven Boswell II]

Quoting Tim Nicholson <nichot20 at yahoo.com>:

> Some codecs embed this information in the stream. For others,
> e.g. rawvideo there is no place for it there

Raw video, at least in the yuv4mpegpipe format, has a one-line header at the beginning that contains information about the stream format, e.g. "YUV4MPEG2 W720 H480 F30000:1001 Ib A10:11 C411 XYSCSS=411".

Steven Boswell