[MPlayer-dev-eng] Question Re: Encoding a QT file with mencode

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 04:47:24PM -0800, J. J. Franzen wrote:
> D Richard Felker III wrote:
> 
> >Out of curiosity, why are you so interested in encoding qt? IMHO it's
> >a very bad thing, it just makes for more movie files encoded with
> >crappy proprietary codecs that can only be played on x86 with the
> >binary qtx stuff.
> >
> Actually, it's not by choice...  I'm trying to find a command line 
> utility for taking a sequence of frames and encoding them into a 
> Quicktime file using Avid's Meridien Uncompressed codec.  The reason I 
> need to do this is it has the fastest import times of any file format 
> we've gotten an Avid to import.  And in our production, speed is always 
> of the essence.  I was hoping to get a Linux solution so we wouldn't 
> have to place a Win32 box into such a critical point of our production 
> pipepline, but that looks like the only choice I have at the moment.  At 
> least, until Avid decides to recompile their codec for Linux (not 
> holding breath on that one).  Thanks for the info, guys.

If it's really uncompressed, writing your own implementation should be
trivial.

Rich