[FFmpeg-user] video in png format

[Aleksandr XYZ]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Corne Beerse <cbeerse at gmail.com> wrote:
> As far as I know, is png a picture format, not a video format.

It is possible to create a video file in "Apple PNG" format (fourcc
0x20676E70) by "MPEG Streamclip 1.2" and play it by VLC player.

Ffmpeg supports png image format, but it is strange for me that it
does not play video in png format:

FFprobe version SVN-r25512, Copyright (c) 2007-2010 the FFmpeg developers
  built on Oct 18 2010 04:06:45 with gcc 4.4.2
  configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-libgsm --enable-pthread
s --enable-libvorbis --enable-libtheora --enable-libspeex --enable-libmp3lame --
enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libopencore_amrwb --enable-
libopencore_amrnb --enable-libvpx --arch=x86 --enable-runtime-cpudetect --enable
-libxvid --enable-libx264 --extra-libs='-lx264 -lpthread' --enable-librtmp --ext
ra-libs='-lrtmp -lpolarssl -lws2_32 -lwinmm' --target-os=mingw32 --enable-avisyn
th --cross-prefix=i686-mingw32- --cc='ccache i686-mingw32-gcc' --enable-memalign
-hack
  libavutil     50.32. 3 / 50.32. 3
  libavcore      0. 9. 1 /  0. 9. 1
  libavcodec    52.92. 0 / 52.92. 0
  libavformat   52.83. 0 / 52.83. 0
  libavdevice   52. 2. 2 / 52. 2. 2
  libavfilter    1.52. 0 /  1.52. 0
  libswscale     0.12. 0 /  0.12. 0
Input #0, avi, from 'input.avi':
  Duration: 00:00:14.00, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 94894 kb/s
    Stream #0.0: Video: png  / 0x20676E70, 640x480, 30 fps, 30 tbr, 30 tbn, 30 t
bc
    Stream #0.1: Audio: pcm_s16le, 44100 Hz, 2 channels, s16, 1411 kb/s
Unsupported codec (id=0) for input stream 0