Re: Command line quicktime movie making

On Thursday 23 March 2006 09:54, Matthew Kitcat wrote:
> For ages I have been trying to find a way of making uncompressed quicktime
> movies from the command line. I had a go at compiling quicktime4linux but
> never got it to compile. Has anybody done this and can anybody help? I am
> not even sure if that is the right way to go

From what format to what uncompressed format? It all depends upon 
compatibility.

lqt_transcode from libquicktime.sourceforge.net can output a nice variety of 
uncompressed quicktimes, but it has limited input format compatibility. 
ffmpeg has better input file compatibility and can be made to output some 
uncompressed movs. For example, 'ffmpeg -i some.file -vcodec rawvideo 
-pix_fmt yuv420p -vtag yv12 -acodec pcm_s16le out.mov' should work, but you 
might want a fatter color band depending upon the input, and ffmpeg might not 
always do the expected YUV format that Quicktime desires.


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