[MPlayer-users] Y4m

[Rolf Ernst]

On 6/23/2010 10:33 AM, Oliver Seitz wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am trying to create a y4m file out of mencoder. I am running into some
>> problems there and being told tat 'mencoder does not produce a y4m
>> skeleton with -of rawvideo -vf format=i420 is specified.
>>
>> Jbowing nothing about this I ask - Is this true and is there something I
>> can do about it (if so)?
>>      
> It is true, if you demand rawvideo, it is rawvideo you get. Raw meand
> plain picture data, no headers or such.
>
> Why don't you use mplayer -vo yuv4mpeg ?
>
> Greets,
> Kiste
>
>    
Unfortunately it seems you cannot pipe that output (without mkfifo).