[FFmpeg-user] Cinepak

David Wagner david.wagner123 at googlemail.com
Sat Sep 8 01:36:45 CEST 2012


Right. And Mpeg-1.

Regards,
David

Am 08.09.2012 01:18, schrieb 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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