[MPlayer-users] Generate image file output with mencoder

[James Board]

>> No.  I know my use case.  I'm better off writing out the individual
>> frames as they are generated with mencoder and the IRTC filter.  Is this possible
>> (that was the original question).
>
>Not really, and thus you probably aren't better off with mencoder,
>especially since mencoder might break any time and not be fixed
>for a long time (as happened recently with audio encoding for example).
>So it is a good question _why_ you are not using mplayer
>or FFmpeg. Both should be able to handle this kind of thing just fine.
>However these options should kind of work with mencoder if
>you make sure to update first:
>-ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=png:format=rgb24 -of lavf -lavfopts format=image2

If I have a static version of mencoder, and don't update, and it works for
what I want to do, and nothing else does, then it's my only option.  Why would
a static version of mencoder break at any time?  It can't, if I don't update the
source.
 
The reason I don't use ffmpeg for IRTC, and I tried, is that it threw away 25 percent
of the frames, when it should only throw away 20 percent of the frames.  I don't think
that will be fixed anytime soon either.
 
The reason I'm not using mplayer is because it doesn't do IRTC.
 
The command you listed doesn't do IRTC.  Can that command
be modified so it does IRTC (filmdint)?
 
Thanks you for your help.