I'm trying to capture a video using a webcam then encoding it as an mp42 asf file on a windows machine. I managed to encode an mpeg2 file using pymedia but pymedia doesn't seem to support mp42.
I installed opencv and tried to use the python wrapper but python keeps crashing everytime I create a writer. Even with just captureing images, it seems too slow and unreliable. Does anyone know of a python module that allow me to create mp42 files? Thanks, -Ray
According to this : http://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/291/493 mp42 is a version 2 of MP4 ISO file format. (Explained here)
Where as according to this wiki link, it is an old Microsoft's (proprietary) MPEG4 codec version 2. This was built-in under VFW (video for windows). I think FFMPEG allows encoding using -vcodec MSMPEGv2 (or something like that) as per this link: http://ffmpeg.org/general.html#Video-Codecs. Though i am not sure if this is same.
If FFMPEG works, it has python binding pyffmpeg that might work for you.
