[FFmpeg-devel] Unsupported video format

[Paul B Mahol]

On 10/1/18, John Duchek <johnduchek at tularosa.net> wrote:
> I think I found a video format that is not supported that would be
> useful (particularly for amateur astronomers) to be supported.
> When taking webcam type photos of the moon and planets, these people
> have moved away from avi files, and are using .ser files.
>
> My understanding of this comes from:
>
> http://www.grischa-hahn.homepage.t-online.de/astro/ser/
>
> which describes it.
>
> Simple uncompressed video format for astronomical capturing:
>
>      unlimited file size
>      time stamps (UT) for every frame
>      8..16 bit per pixel and plane
>      Monochrome, Bayer RGB/CMY, full RGB (v3)
>      contains information about observer, camera and telescope
>      SER files are supported by:
>
>      Lucam Recorder (v2)
>      AiryLab Genika Astro (v2)
>      Open Astro Project - oaCapture (v2)
>      SIRIL (v3)
>      FireCapture (v3)
>      PIPP (v3)
>      WinJUPOS (v3)
>      AutoStakkert!2 (v3)
>      AviStack (v2)
>      RegiStax (v2)
>      ImagesPlus (v2)
>      Planetary impact flashes detection with DeTeCt (v2)
>
> The website above has descriptions of version 2 and 3 of the format, and
> a sample implementation in Pascal.
>
> Would there be any interest in supporting this format?

Yes, if someone is going to sponsor such addition, even more.

Also are there any samples?