[Libav-user] Encode video: Pro Res 422

[Info || Non-Lethal Applications]

On 16 May 2014, at 19:02, Gonzalo Garramuno <ggarra13 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 16/05/14 10:27, Info || Non-Lethal Applications wrote:
>> Hey there,
>> 
>> I’m trying to encode a sequence of images into Pro Res 422 in the MOV container.
>> I already had a look at the example: muxing.c and it looks promising.
>> 
>> However, I can’t figure out how to tell the encoder to use ProRes instead of H.264 for MOV.
>> Here’s what I’ve tried (mostly unaltered sample …):
>> 
>> AVOutputFormat* pOutputFmt;
>> AVFormatContext* pFormatCtx;
>> AVStream* pVideoStream;
>> AVCodec* pVideoCodec;
>> 
>> /* Initialize libavcodec, and register all codecs and formats. */
>> av_register_all();
>> 
>> /* allocate the output media context */
>> avformat_alloc_output_context2(&pFormatCtx, NULL, "mov", filename.c_str());
>> 
> Try after that:
> 
> pOutputFmt = pFormatCtx->oformat;
> pOutputFmt->video_codec = AV_CODEC_ID_PRORES;
> 
> (add stream and open codec here).

Ok, got it. That works perfectly.
And how would I go about defining the different Pro Res flavors? Like Proxy/LT/Standard/HQ?

Thanks!