On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 4:18 PM Kieran O Leary <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Forgive my ignorance ,but what is the difference between a parser and a > decoder in this context? What does this parser add that wasn't covered in > the decoder? > Quoting Carl from a previous thread: Try the following: $ cat 1.jpg 2.jpg | ffmpeg -i -f null - (Is expected to decode two frames as can be seen in the console output, also works for example with png)
$ cat 1.j2k 2.j2k | ffmpeg -i - -f null - Will only decode one frame because there is no parser to split the input. > Best, > > Kieran O'Leary > Irish Film Institute > _______________________________________________ > ffmpeg-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel > > To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email > [email protected] with subject "unsubscribe". -- ------------- Gautam | _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list [email protected] https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel To unsubscribe, visit link above, or email [email protected] with subject "unsubscribe".
