[MPlayer-users] Converting video to lossless

[Ron Johnson]

On 10/08/2011 02:13 AM, Deron Kazmaier wrote:
> Hello,
>
> While waiting for the ProRes decoder to be sped up enough to play
> 1280x720, 59.94fps without dropping frames, I'd like to try a test that
> I conceived back when 32bit Apple ProRes codec was my only choice.
>
> Basically, I'd like to use mencoder to convert this video to some
> lossless encoding. I've beaten my head, but it always ends up telling me

But lossless video is... *huge*.

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>
> mencoder "/work/testfile.mov" -ni -aspect 16:9 -oac copy -ovc lavc
> -lavcopts vcodec=ffvhuff:threads=8 -o testfile.avi
>

And avi container in 2011?  Why not MKV or M4V?

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>
> Too many video packets in the buffer: (116 in 33646400 bytes).
> Maybe you are playing a non-interleaved stream/file or the codec failed?

That appears to be a problem with the input codec, not the output.

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