[MPlayer-users] Help with ProRes/Decklink

[Deron Kazmaier]

On 9/19/11 11:31 PM, Oliver Seitz wrote:
>
>>> Ok, so I can at least show a proof of concept to my friend, is it
>>> possible to decode to a raw file and then play that back? I don't
>>> want to reencode to another format for quality issues, but I
>>> expected two new chunks of code to be unoptimized speed wise.
>>
>> Well, mencoder with -ovc raw.
>
> I'd suggest mplayer -vo yuv4mpeg for that purpose. That should be 
> "raw" enough... Or huffyuv or another very fast lossless codec.
>
> Greets,
> Kiste

Thanks for the suggestions. By using -lavdopts threads=6 I am able to 
play the video without dropping frames. That still leaves me 18 threads :-)


Deron