> Is it possible to get a raw, decoded frame from an mpeg stream > somehow? > I want it decoded, but not filtered in any way such as color space > conversions etc... You can use ffmpeg: ffmpeg -i MOVIE_FILE -ss START_TIME -t DURATION -f rawvideo RAW_OUTPUT_FILE FFmpeg will tell you the pixel format of the input movie and will use the same format for the raw output, which will probably be yuv420p (planar YUV with 4:2:0 chroma subsampling). Note that ffmpeg uses exact seeking, which can be very slow if START_TIME is late in a long movie (we're talking slow as in decoding every frame from the beginning). You can reuse the raw frame(s) as input to ffmpeg like so: ffmpeg -f rawvideo -pix_fmt PIXEL_FORMAT -s WIDTHxHEIGHT -i RAW_FILE [output options...] You could also process the raw stream and send it to ffmpeg through a pipe: [process raw stream...] | ffmpeg -f rawvideo -pix_fmt PIXEL_FORMAT -s WIDTHxHEIGHT -i - [output options...] best, Ivan
