[MPlayer-users] SNOW codec and 12bpp

[zikzak at tele2.fr]

On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 21:52:57 -0500
D Richard Felker III <dalias at aerifal.cx> wrote:

>On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 10:47:05AM +0100, zikzak at tele2.fr wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> How to generate a video with 12bpp for the SNOW lavc codec ?
>
>bpp? bpp is totally meaningless.
>
>rich

Hi,

Sometimes when I open a video with mplayer I can see :
VIDEO:  [XVID]  1280x720  12bpp  23,976 fps  3199,1 kbps (390,5 kbyte/s)

and with SNOW I have :
VIDEO:  [SNOW]  512x368  24bpp  25,000 fps  288,7 kbps (35,2 kbyte/s)

Is there a way to drop from 24 to 12bpp with SNOW ?

Maybe I do not understand the meaning of BPP, if this is the case then can you explain what is it ?

Regards
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ZikZak