NAME

mpivtopnm - convert an MPIV0 file to a set of pnm files

SYNOPSIS

mpivtopnm MPIV0_input_file output_base_name

DESCRIPTION

mpivtopnm converts an MPIV0 digital video file into a set of pnmfiles. The first command line argument specifies the name of the input MPIV0 file. The second argument gives the base used to create the names of the output pnm files. Output file names are specified by the C printf format "%s.%04d.ppm" (or "%s.%04d.pgm" for black and white images. The base name goes into the %s slot and the %04d slot indicates the position of an image in the original video sequence. For example, if an MPIV0 file named vid.mpiv contains 10 RGB15 images, and is converted with the command line:

mpivtopnm vid.mpiv vid

then the following images are created

vid.0000.ppm
vid.0001.ppm
vid.0002.ppm
vid.0003.ppm
vid.0004.ppm
vid.0005.ppm
vid.0006.ppm
vid.0007.ppm
vid.0008.ppm
vid.0009.ppm

mpivtopnm does not require any command line switches since all the information it needs is in the MPIV0 header. Source code for mpivtopnm is available.

SEE ALSO

mpdvr, mpiconvert, MPIV0 format description, mpivmpeg, mpivsgi, and how-to examples.

FILES

BUGS

No known bugs.

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