

The codec I need to decode is called Cineform, though really it's more universally about calling system QT decoders at a loss.Īnyone have any ideas? Maybe another program that can decode with quicktime system codecs and send data to x264? I know that ffmpeg is working, I made sure and built it with libraries for the latest x264 and faac, and I can encode from other sources etc etc. (and I'm very hesitant to start messing around with Wine)Īnd I tried ffmbc from but it doesn't include what I need If I were coming from ProRes, I'd be able to use MPlayer (at least, according to ) but as far as I can understand that solution won't work for anything other than ProRes. If I just needed to make quicktime files, I'd use the x264 build-as-a-QuickTime-component thing from, but it doesn't have all the options I need or presets I'd prefer, and I don't think would work from the command line. If this were a windows system, I'd build ffmpeg with avisynth and use an avs script with "QTSource", but avisynth doesn't build outside of windows I'm told, and I'm also told is not yet in a usable state and was largely abandoned (is this worth trying to compile to test with?) know this should go without saying, but no I'm afraid it's not possible to transcode everything in QuickTime Pro to Uncompressed or whatever just so ffmpeg can read them. Is there any way to configure ffmpeg to use the system quicktime to feed it frames, or to call an instance of the quicktime component to pipe frames into ffmpeg?

I have the decoder installed on the system, Quicktime opens them fine, but it's not a codec supported by libavcodec/ffmpeg, and it's not a codec I can get a library for. I want to set up an encoder on a Mac OSX 10.6.7 machine to take command line input and encode quicktime files into H.264/AAC mp4 streams, but unfortunately the quicktime files are all unavoidably encoded using a proprietary codec. I've been having a problem, and I can't seem to find a specific solution for this anywhere.
