[FFmpeg-user] format used by bmp encoder

[Lyman Hurd]

I am using ffmpeg to render a movie into individual frames, e.g.:

ffmpeg -i test2.mov -f image2 /mnt/cbsvolume2/test2/test%06d.bmp

for certain videos I get back a sequence of 24-bit bgr frames (which is
what I want) and the output stream is identified as:

Stream #0:0(eng): Video: bmp, bgr24, 1280x720, q=2-31, 200 kb/s, 90k tbn,
25 tbc

for other videos it encodes the frames as indexed color 8-bit BMP images
and identifies the output stream as:

Stream #0:0(eng): Video: bmp, bgr8, 720x480, q=2-31, 200 kb/s, 90k tbn,
23.98 tbc

My question is how I can be more specific in my command line to ensure that
I get behavior one instead of behavior two.  I am also curious how ffmpeg
makes the determination of the default behavior but the important issue for
me is how to always get 24-bit results.

Thanks,

Lyman

PS I am running on an Ubuntu system:

ffmpeg version git-2012-12-14-ecebf6f Copyright (c) 2000-2012 the FFmpeg
developers
  built on Dec 14 2012 17:36:48 with gcc 4.7 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.7.2-2ubuntu1)

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