[FFmpeg-user] Cinepak

[Andy Civil]

Fair enough. The other codec that you'll find wide support for / acceptance of, 
is the MPEG-2 stream found on DVDs.

Andy


On 2012-09-07 6:59 PM, David Wagner wrote:
> Hello Andy,
>
> I wanted to benchmark this codec for comparing it with other codecs. Also I
> wanted to test this codec, because it seems to be one of the codecs which works
> without problems on mac and windows. The test sequences are low bitrate. I
> already found it on Virtual Dub.
>
> Regards,
> David
>
> Am 07.09.2012 22:25, schrieb Andy Civil:
>> On 2012-09-07 1:08 PM, David Wagner wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> is there really no cinepak enoder in ffmpeg?
>>
>> In general, I hate it when support people respond to a question with "why on
>> earth would you want to do that" but I admit, it's hard not to think that way
>> in this case; the codec is now 20 years old, and was useful only to create
>> small videos that would play on a 1992 PC given the processing power available.
>>
>> Perhaps if you told us what your overall purpose was, you might get a useful
>> hint on how to achieve your objective in a reasonable way.
>>
>> (P.S. I believe that Windows relies on codec DLLs being 'installed', but
>> FFmpeg doesn't work that way; having a Cinepak (or any other) codec 'on your
>> computer' is not going to enable FFmpeg to use it.)
>>
>> --
>> Andy
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