[FFmpeg-user] piping images into ffmpeg

Akilan R akilan27 at gmail.com
Mon Apr 11 10:07:26 CEST 2011


On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Tim Nicholson <tim.nicholson at bbc.co.uk>wrote:

> Err, if "-f image2" is correct then why change it to "-f image2pipe" ?


image2 is correct for getting input from consecutively numbered files.
image2pipe is for getting from pipe.

> I think image2pipe is more for output formatting. yuv4mpegpipe certainly
is.

Don't read '2pipe' as 'to pipe'; notice that first option also has 2 in the
end. :-)

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