[MPlayer-users] Is it possible to specify colour depth of MPEG-IIfiles using

[John Brown]

>On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 22:53:18 -0500, Jeff Clagg wrote:
>
>On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 10:14:24PM -0400, John Brown wrote:
> > I use MEncoder to convert movies to DVD-compatible MPEG-II. I notice 
>that
> > when I play DIVX50 AVI files, the MPlayer output shows information about
> > the color depth, which is as low as 12 bpp sometimes. However, my files
> > generated by MEncoder do not show info about the colour depth.
> >
> > Does this mean that MPEG-II files are always 24 bpp? Can I set the 
>colour
> > depth? If yes, how?
>
>Those values are completely meaningless. The bpp field in the avi header
>only makes sense for some lossless codecs. For other codecs, some
>applications have chosen to write 24bpp in the header while some write
>12bpp. Either way it makes absolutely no difference whatsoever.
>
I see. I take it that that's a no, then? I saw something about formats in
mplayer -vf format=fmt=help
and I tried one or two, but I got errors.