[FFmpeg-user] format used by bmp encoder

[Lyman Hurd]

Many thanks.  That nailed it!

Cheers,

Lyman


On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Paul B Mahol <onemda at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2/17/13, Lyman Hurd <lyman.hurd at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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
>
> ffmpeg -i test2.mov -f image2 -pix_fmt bgr24
> /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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