[FFmpeg-user] FFmpeg API function for transcoding

[Atish Kathpal]

Hello friends

Your insights would be of great help. Please throw some light on my newbie
question.

Regards
Atish

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Atish Kathpal <atish.kathpal at gmail.com>wrote:

> I mean to ask, if there is an API that looks like this:
>
> TranscodeVideo(InFilePath, OutFilePath, *argumentslist[]);
>
> Or the only way to do this with the FFmpeg APIs is to read the input file
> one frame at a time and then encode/decode it according to requirements?
>
> In either case, it will be useful if you could point me to useful
> documentations. Please tell me if the former is possible with the given APIs
> without having to code for every frame.
>
> Regards
> Atish
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Atish Kathpal <atish.kathpal at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hello
>>
>> Can anyone point me to the function in libavformat/libavcodec APIs of
>> FFmpeg which can transcode an input video file to an outputvideo file of
>> choice.
>>
>> I am basically looking for the corresponding function in API that is an
>> equivalent of the CLI command, say: ffmpeg -i /tmp/test.yuv /tmp/out.avi
>>
>> Please help me out.
>>
>> Regards
>> Atish
>>
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