[MPlayer-users] Re: -dumpvideo: does it create raw video stream?

[Nico Sabbi]

Enzo wrote:

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>>Use mencoder -of rawvideo
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>It doesn't seem to work. I think Nico's right:
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yes, I'm right, but -of rawvideo _does_ work

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>>yes, for some idiot reason -dumpvideo applied to avi, asf and mov
>>dumps 4 bytes (len) before every video packet.
>>It should really be removed
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>If you let me know the format of the output I could write a little filter.
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>Thank you, cheers
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>Enzo
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no need to filter anything, just:
Index: mplayer.c
===================================================================
--- mplayer.c   (revisione 21098)
+++ mplayer.c   (copia locale)
@@ -4314,8 +4314,6 @@
   while(!ds->eof){
     unsigned char* start;
     int in_size=ds_get_packet(ds,&start);
-    if( (demuxer->file_format==DEMUXER_TYPE_AVI || 
demuxer->file_format==DEMUXER_TYPE_ASF || 
demuxer->file_format==DEMUXER_TYPE_MOV)
-       && stream_dump_type==2) fwrite(&in_size,1,4,f);
     if(in_size>0) fwrite(start,in_size,1,f);
   }
   fclose(f);


but as I wrote mencoder -ovc copy -of rawvideo ...  works equally well