[MEncoder-users] 16 bit greyscale lossless codec

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 5/17/06, Kristian Nilssen <knilssen at weather3000.com> wrote:
> I have scientific data in the form of 16 bit greyscale images which I
> need to package up into an avi (on linux) and send to a windows box for
> viewing / further processing. I can convert the images to RGB png files
> and create an avi but I really need to create an avi with 16 bit grey
> scale data (preferrably lossless), not 24bit RGB data. Is this possible?
> I think I read somewhere that H264 can do lossless greyscale, but how do
> i find out what options to pass to mencoder for this?

man mencoder

and look at x264 section

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