Re: Dvgrab piping?

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 11:38 PM, Howard Huang <[email protected]> wrote:
> So does it give me output one frame at a time, or is it a constant stream?

A constant stream.

> I'm really new to programming so I don't know how to really research this myself :(

You will need the appropriate video codec to decode the stream to
uncompressed video frames. You might be better off using gstreamer,
which is fairly high level, can capture and decode, and it has various
language bindings, documentation, examples, and support community.

> Thanks for all the help.
> Howard Huang
>
>
> On Dec 3, 2009, at 2:27 AM, Stefan Richter wrote:
>
>> Howard Huang wrote:
>>> So guys, I'm wondering when I pipe my dvgrab output what kind of
>>> data/output would I get.
>> [...]
>>> dvgrab -  >> text.txt
>>
>> Same as if you let dvgrab save to a file:  DV or MPEG2-TS.
>> --
>> Stefan Richter
>> -=====-==--= ==-- ---==
>> http://arcgraph.de/sr/
>

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