[MPlayer-users]

[Moritz Bunkus]

Hi.

> IMHO, -vo yuv4mpeg should go away and be replaced with mencoder
> option -ovc yuv4mpeg or something

There is a BIG difference: mencoder always produces an AVI (just
recently there was a patch that added some kind of a muxer layer to
allow other formats, only MPEG at the moment) while 'mplayer -vo
yuv4mpeg' only outputs the raw frames and NOTHING more, no headers, no
index, no nothing. 'mencoder -o rgb24' (or whatever it is called)
produces an AVI with uncompressed frames in the RGB color space.

If anything there should be 'mplayer -vo rgb24 / yuv4mpeg' AND
'mencoder -ovc rgb24/yuv...' as both serve a different purpose.

Another option would be to implement a 'muxer' that would only output
the raw video frames and drop everything else (including audio tracks).

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 ==> Ciao, Mosu (Moritz Bunkus)