FFDShow to DV?

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FFDShow to DV?

Postby Kaji01 » Thu May 28, 2009 6:31 pm

I've got some old source footage I stumbled across that I'd like to use, but it's encoded in FFDShow. So while it looks great on my girlfriend's PC, I can't get it to show up in MPEG Streamclip, much less use it in FinalCut. Are there any options on either the PC or Mac end of things to convert to DV or some similar compatible HQ format?
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Re: FFDShow to DV?

Postby Qyot27 » Thu May 28, 2009 7:10 pm

Do you mean FFV1, ffvhuff, or something else? ffdshow is the whole encoder/decoder filter, not a specific format.

In any case, you could see if Perian fixes it for you, as it's more-or-less a port of libavcodec to Quicktime (the same way that ffdshow is a port of libavcodec to DirectShow & VFW):
http://www.perian.org/#detail

Even if it doesn't enable the particular format those videos are in, it would allow more possibilities - it does list support for HuffYUV and ffvhuff, so you could use the PC to encode in one of those formats and Perian would open them.


Of course, you could also use a new OS X build of mencoder to do the transcoding for use with Perian instead of the PC, as it supports decoding and encoding into those formats too - you'd have to get used to the command-line to get the most use out of it, though. AVIDemux is a more user-friendly option in that regard as well.
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