[FFmpeg-devel] support multipage TIFFs

Justin Ruggles justin.ruggles
Tue Aug 11 00:14:12 CEST 2009


Justin Ruggles wrote:

> Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 05:56:39PM +1000, Peter Ross wrote:
>>> $subject.
>> what are multipage tiffs?
>> are the individual tiffs frames of a video or could they be considered
>> seperate?
>> if a video, can they be seperated by a parser
>> if not, is avpkt.pts/dts reset appropriately?
> 
> The only use I've seen is for documents.  We have a
> copier/printer/scanner at work that will scan a document as a multipage
> TIFF and email it.  It also does PDF, which is what we normally use, but
> the TIFF option is there too.

Come to think of it, I have seen another use.  I believe that some (but
not all) raw digital camera TIFF-derivative formats use the multipage
feature for thumbnail(s).

-Justin



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