[MPlayer-users] "-vo pgm", as quickly as possible

[Bruce Janson]

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    Message-Id: <200212061004.gB6A4xwY022121 at mail.mplayerhq.hu>
    From: Arpi <arpi at thot.banki.hu>
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    In-Reply-To:  <200212060925.gB69PRd11070 at serf0.cs.usyd.edu.au>
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    Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 11:04:59 +0100
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    > I needed a way to decode MPEG files into greyscale frames, one
    > per file, and was pleased to discover that mplayer appeared to
    > provide such a feature with its "-vo pgm" argument.
    > However, I notice that it tries to maintain the "correct" output
    > frame rate as it does this decoding, which for my purposes is
    > unnecessary (and slows down the translation!).
    > 
    > How can I persuade mplayer to produce these .pgm files as
    > quickly as possible?
    
    -nosound -benchmark
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Thanks!  That was exactly what I was looking for.