[FFmpeg-user] Cinepak

David Wagner david.wagner123 at googlemail.com
Sat Sep 8 00:59:31 CEST 2012


Hello Andy,

I wanted to benchmark this codec for comparing it with other codecs. 
Also I wanted to test this codec, because it seems to be one of the 
codecs which works without problems on mac and windows. The test 
sequences are low bitrate. I already found it on Virtual Dub.

Regards,
David

Am 07.09.2012 22:25, schrieb Andy Civil:
> On 2012-09-07 1:08 PM, David Wagner wrote:
>> Hello,
>> is there really no cinepak enoder in ffmpeg?
>
> In general, I hate it when support people respond to a question with 
> "why on earth would you want to do that" but I admit, it's hard not to 
> think that way in this case; the codec is now 20 years old, and was 
> useful only to create small videos that would play on a 1992 PC given 
> the processing power available.
>
> Perhaps if you told us what your overall purpose was, you might get a 
> useful hint on how to achieve your objective in a reasonable way.
>
> (P.S. I believe that Windows relies on codec DLLs being 'installed', 
> but FFmpeg doesn't work that way; having a Cinepak (or any other) 
> codec 'on your computer' is not going to enable FFmpeg to use it.)
>
> -- 
> Andy
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