[Libav-user] How to use rawvideo conatiner format with mpeg4

[Mark Pupilli]

On Oct 27, 2012 5:53 PM, "Mark Pupilli" <mpupilli at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I was thinking of size overhead, so it seems m4v is the correct choice.
Thank you.
>
> On Oct 27, 2012 5:49 PM, "Carl Eugen Hoyos" <cehoyos at ag.or.at> wrote:
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>> Mark Pupilli <mpupilli at ...> writes:
>>
>> > I am sending the video over network using a custom
>> > protocol so was trying to avoid the overhead of a
>> > container format.
>>
>> Do you mean size overhead or performance overhead?
>> The m4v container has no size overhead and I suspect
>> the performance overhead is (very, very slightly)
>> bigger with rawvideo (it has more special-cases).
>>
>> > Is it not possible to transport mpeg4 in a rawvideo
>> > container?
>>
>> The container called "rawvideo" is for rawvideo (yuv,
>> rgb), raw codecs have specific containers.
>>
>> Please do not top-post here, Carl Eugen
>>
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Ooops, sorry for top posting. Haven't used a  mailing list since the 90's!
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