>I think I must be doing something silly: every time I try to pipe the
Excellent intuition... :) >output of either png2yuv or ppmtoy4m into mpeg2enc, mpeg2enc complains: > > ERROR: [mpeg2enc] Could not read YUV4MPEG header: bad stream or frame > header! > >Command lines: > png2yuv -f 25 -I b -n 1 -L 1 -j foo.png | \ > mpeg2enc -f 8 -o output.mpg silence.m2a ^^^^^^^^^^^ mpeg2enc != mplex Since you supplied an _input filename_ to mpeg2enc, it is trying to read a YUV4MPEG2 stream from "silence.m2a", and that is failing (because, I assume, it is an MPEG audio stream). -matt m. ps: My own intuition says that your input PNG image doesn't actually have a 59:54 sample aspect ratio, i.e. you'll need y4mscaler in the pipeline. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive Reporting Tool for open source databases. Create drag-&-drop reports. Save time by over 75%! Publish reports on the web. Export to DOC, XLS, RTF, etc. Download a FREE copy at http://www.intelliview.com/go/osdn_nl _______________________________________________ Mjpeg-users mailing list Mjpeg-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mjpeg-users