[Ffmpeg-devel] decoder output

Michel Bardiaux mbardiaux
Wed Mar 28 14:02:54 CEST 2007


Anonymous Anonym wrote:
> May be i don't understand sth, but i want to help and write a decoder
> for some format. I have get this format into my interior
> presentation, now i'm interesting in what format should output to
> ffmpeg be done. where could i read about it?
> 
First of all you have to understand the difference in ffmpeg between a 
format (which means a *file* format, in which several streams can be 
multiplexed) and a codec (which compresses/decompresses 1 stream). And 
what do you mean by 'output to ffmpeg'?

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