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• Turn image sequence into video with transparency

  29 janvier 2014, par Cody Hatch

  I've got what seems like it should be a really simple problem, but it's proving much harder than I expected. Here's the issue :

  I've got a fairly large image sequence consisting of numbered frames (output from Maya, for what its worth). The images are currently in Targa (.tga) format, but I could convert them to PNGs or other arbitrary format if that matters. The important thing is, they've got an alpha channel.

  What I want to do is programatically turn them into a video clip. The format doesn't really matter, but it needs to be lossless and have an alpha channel. Uncompressed video in a Quicktime container would probably be ideal.

  My initial thought was ffmpeg, but after wasting most of a day on it it seems it's got no support at all for alpha channels. Either I'm missing something, or the underlying libavcodec just doesn't do it.

  So, what's the right way here ? A command line tool like ffmpeg would be nice, but any solution that runs on Windows and could be called from a script would be fine.

  Note : Having an alpha chanel in your video isn't actually all that uncommon, and it's really useful if you want to composite it on top of another video clip or a still image. As far as I know uncompressed video, the Quicktime Animation codec, and the Sorenson Video 3 codec all support tranparency, and I've heard H.264 does as well. All we're really talking about is 32-bit color depth, and that's pretty widely supported ; both Quicktime .mov files and Windowss .avi files can handle it, and probably a lot more too.

  Quicktime Pro is more than happy to turn an image sequence into a 32-bit .mov file. Hit export, change color depth to "Millions of Colors+", select the Animation codec, crank the quality up to 100, and there you are - losslessly compressed video, with an alpha chanel, and it'll play back almost anywhere since the codec has been part of Quicktime since version 1.0. The problem is, Quicktime Pro doesn't have any sort of command-line interface (at least on Windows). ffmpeg supports encoding using the Quicktime Animation codec (which it calls qtrle), but it only supports a bit-depth of 24 bits.

  The issue isn't finding a video format that supports an alpha channel. Quicktime Animation would be ideal, but even uncompressed video should work. The problem is finding a tool that supports it.

• Using FFMpeg with Runtime.exec() to do a simple transcoding

  1er novembre 2011, par Adam Ingmansson

  I know there are many questions touching this subject, but none have helped me solve my issue.

  Purpose :

  Transcoding a video taken,from a queue, from .mov to h.264 (for now only that)

  Solution :

  Building a java application that gets the next in the queue, transcodes it then repeat

  Problem :

  Running ffmpeg using Runtime.exec() is not working.
  Im using the StreamGobbler from this tutorial to capturing the output from the process.

  This code shows how i start my process :

  String[] command = new String[]{"./ffmpeg/ffmpeg","-i",videoFile.getPath(),"-vcodec","libx264","-fpre",preset,folder + recID + ".flv"};
  
  System.out.println("Running command..");
  
  Process p = r.exec(command);
  
  
  
   // any error message?
  
  StreamGobbler errorGobbler = new 
  
  StreamGobbler(p.getErrorStream(), "ERROR");            
  
  
  
  // any output?
  
  StreamGobbler outputGobbler = new 
  
  StreamGobbler(p.getInputStream(), "OUT");
  
  
  
  // kick them off
  
  errorGobbler.start();
  
  outputGobbler.start();
  
  
  
  //logProcessOutputAndErrors(p);
  
  
  
  int res = p.waitFor();
  
  if (res != 0) {
  
      throw new Exception("Encoding error: "+String.valueOf(res));
  
  }

  and this is the current modified version of StreamGobbler (the important part)

  InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(is);
  
  BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(isr);
  
  String line=null;
  
  int c = 0;
  
  StringBuilder str = new StringBuilder();
  
  
  
  while (true) {
  
      c = br.read();
  
  }

  Sometimes ffmpeg just stalls, maybe waiting for my input (although there is no indication on screen).

  Sometimes it just ends.

  Sometimes (when I added the line "System.out.print((char) c) ;" in the while-loop above) i got loads of "¿¿ï" repeated over and over again, wich might be the actual encoding of the video wich I managed to capture instead of to a file.

  For those who wonders why i dont just go with a commandline or maybe even php :

  The purpose is an application that will run 24/7 transcoding anything and everything from a queue. The files are pretty large to begin with and takes about 15 min to transcode.

• FFmpeg static keyframe rate

  7 novembre 2011, par 2di

  I have a question about ffmpeg usage. Every time when I trying to convert video files into
  some different format, output file getting static keyframe sequence.

  What I mean is that keyframes appear at the distance of 12 frames. I know that its controllerd by parameter -g that you can change to any other number.

  ffmpeg -i 1.avi -vcodec mpeg4 -b 2000000  out.avi

  I believe there should be some way to make keyframes appear on uneven intervals. These interval should be calculated by codec, and it should be based on image changes in the video file. So keyframes should be inserted only when they needed, but not consistently after N frames.

  Can somebody please explain to me how this "smart" encoding can be done with ffmpeg ?
  Thank you

  SOLUTION : ok what I'ev been looking for has very simple solution. If you set -g to zero, ffmpeg will choose keyframes based on the video shots and bitrate