Can OpenH264 write h263 files

[Sebastian Dröge]

On Sat, 2016-12-17 at 09:26 -0500, Jerry Geis wrote:
> I am playing with openh264 as I have a need to generate h263 files
> (not using ffmpeg of course).
> 
> I have openh264 installed - and gst-inspect-1.0 finds it...
> running this command :
> gst-launch-1.0 -e videotestsrc ! openh264enc ! h264parse ! filesink
> /tmp/video.h263
> 
> gives me a file and totem plays it.
> However I think the file is h264 and not h263.

As the name suggests, openh264 is for h264 and not h263.

> How can I get h263 output without ffmpeg?

The only open source h263 encoder I'm aware of is in ffmpeg. What are
the reasons why you can't use it?

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Sebastian Dröge, Centricular Ltd · http://www.centricular.com
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