Re: executing an extern program from a .m file

[Stefan van der Walt]

On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 02:37:44PM +0100, Agnes Bousquier wrote:
> help. Unfortunately, ffmpeg does not seem to be available for Windows, so
> I downloaded VLC Media Player. But what should I type on my .m file to
> execute VLC Media Player?

I assume you want to read the video frames as images.  I'd suggest
downloading mplayer for windows, and then using the image writer
output device to convert the AVI-file to a number of image files, i.e.

mplayer -vo png myvideo.avi

You can then read in the individual frames using `imread'.

Stéfan



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