[FFmpeg-user] NEVERMIND!!! Re: WTF? Not getting VC-1 output...

Lou lou at lrcd.com
Fri Oct 25 01:56:43 CEST 2013


On Thu, 24 Oct 2013 16:52:17 -0700
"Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg at tristatelogic.com> wrote:

> But now that I've corrected my (stupid) error, I have a different
> question.  Now I am getting the error:
> 
>    Unknown encoder 'vc1'

FFmpeg does not have a VC-1 video encoder (AFAIK), but only a decoder.

> However when I run the command:
> 
>     ffmpeg -codecs
> 
> I get a lot of output, one line of which says:
> 
 D..... = Decoding supported
 .E.... = Encoding supported
 ..V... = Video codec
 ..A... = Audio codec
 ..S... = Subtitle codec
 ...I.. = Intra frame-only codec
 ....L. = Lossy compression
 .....S = Lossless compression
 -------

>     D.V.L. vc1                  SMPTE VC-1

Meaning:
Decoding supported
Video codec
Lossy compression


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