You may use fragmented MP4. A fragmented MP4 file is built a follows: moov [moof mdat]+ The moov box then only contains basic information about the tracks (how many, their type , codec initialization and so on) but no information about the samples in the track. The information about sample locations and sample sizes is … Read more
The solution seems to be to use Mencoder (or at least, that seems to be a semi-popular choice). Here’s a link that specifically addresses images-to-movies capabilities in Mencoder. As for rendering text onto the frames before encoding them as part of the video, you can use Java2D’s image manipulation libraries to simply draw text on … Read more
Marshall Greenblatt (the maintainer of the Chromium Embedded Framework) addresses the lack of support for MP3 (and AAC) in Chromium and CEF in this bug report (see comment #7, copied below): Codecs like MP3 and AAC are included in Google Chrome releases but not Chromium builds. This is because these formats are not open and … Read more
You can watch the graph you created using GraphEdit, a tool from the DirectShow SDK. In GraphEdit, select File->Connect to remote Graph… In order to find your graph in the list, you have to register it in the running object table: void AddToRot( IUnknown *pUnkGraph, DWORD *pdwRegister ) { IMoniker* pMoniker; IRunningObjectTable* pROT; GetRunningObjectTable( 0, … Read more
You need libavcodec and libavformat. The FAQ tells you: 4.1 Are there examples illustrating how to use the FFmpeg libraries, particularly libavcodec and libavformat? Yes. Read the Developers Guide of the FFmpeg documentation. Alternatively, examine the source code for one of the many open source projects that already incorporate FFmpeg at (projects.html). The FFmpeg documentation … Read more