[FFmpeg-user] rawvideo with a header

Andy Furniss andyqos at ukfsn.org
Mon Nov 12 21:58:53 CET 2012


Erez Steinberg wrote:
> '-skipheader 100' parameter is what I can't find.
> I prefer to have this capability as part of ffmpeg,

I guess it could be handy, but -

> and avoid an unnecessary file-copy as uncompressed files are huge.

I don't see why you would need a file copy if you used dd to feed ffmpeg 
stdin

dd bs=100 skip=1 if=<SOURCE_VIDEO> | ffmpeg ... -i - ...


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