[Live-devel] Transcode occasional jpeg out of mp4 rtsp?

Ross Finlayson finlayson at live555.com
Mon Jun 16 22:33:51 PDT 2008


>I'm using liveMedia with vlc to capture a mp4 rtsp stream to disk. 
>I'd like to create a jpeg of the most recent frame every second or 
>so out of this stream (which is running about 30 fps), could this be 
>done easily?

No, not without writing code that decodes each MPEG-4 video frame, 
and then re-encodes it into a JPEG image.  (Note that we don't have 
any video decoding/encoding software of our own.)
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Ross Finlayson
Live Networks, Inc.
http://www.live555.com/


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