[FFmpeg-user] Detecting frames on Raw video stream

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Charl Wentzel <charl.wentzel <at> vodamail.co.za> writes:

> What alternative raw formats are available in FFmpeg that do 
> contain some meta data? Bitmap (BMP) maybe?

There is a bmp parser in FFmpeg but no tiff parser, you could 
still use -frame_size.

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> > You should teach FFmpeg to read the frames from the camera.
>
> Any ideas how?  Should I consider writing my own container 
> format library for FFmpeg?

I meant instead of implementing the API in you own piece of 
software you could use it in FFmpeg (or reverse engineer it).

Carl Eugen