[gst-devel] Can't play raw YV12 file

[Mark Nauwelaerts]

Florent THIERY wrote:
> Well, solved; we didn't think of using the ffdemux_yuv4mpegpipe
> demuxer (as we only had raw video, no sound).
> 
> However, this doesn't work with fifo files, which is annoying (because
> we have to store huge yuv files). Why is that ?

ffdemux only supports pull-based scheduling at present (meaning it needs
seekable input).  There is a patch for push-based scheduling (such as for
non-seekable fifo input) in http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=392534,
which should be ok for this particular ffmpeg demuxer.

Regards,
Mark.