[MPlayer-users] Re: Stills and sound from DSC MPEGs

[D Richard Felker III]

On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 07:10:57PM +0200, Johan Vromans wrote:
> Johan Vromans <jvromans at squirrel.nl> writes:
> 
> > 1. My digital camera (Sony DSC V1) can produce short MPEG movies. For
> >    cataloging, I'd like to extract a still image from the movie, for
> >    example, the first image. I'm sure mplayer/mencoder can do this,
> >    but I haven't been able to find out how.
> 
> Since I got no answer, I wrote a little tool for this purpose. It is
> based on an example from libmpeg2 (http://libmpeg2.sourceforge.net)
> and uses the libmpeg2 libraries.
> 
> Happy hacking,

I have a related question: how can one make mpeg files that the Sony
DSC cameras will accept and play? I've tried several methods with
mencoder and ffmpeg but the camera always says "file error". All the
audio and video parameters I can see are identical to those in files
produced by the camera, so ffmpeg must be generating broken PS files
or else the camera is expecting some proprietary extra info to
identify the files as its own...

If anyone's done research on what's up with this, I'd be interested to
know. It'd be neat to be able to watch movies on the camera.

Rich