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Saving MJPEG to compressed Video File with C#

I'd like to convert a MJPEG Stream from an IP-Camera to a compressed Video File. To access the stream i use the MJPEF Decoder found here: http://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/articles/MJPEG-Decoder. If i write the Frames to an avi File with an avifil32.dll Wrapper i need 100MB for 1 minute with 5 fps. What can I do?

Solution

  • Try the AVI writers provided by AForge.NET:

    • AForge.Video.VFW.AVIWriter uses the Video for Windows API
    • AForge.Video.FFMPEG.VideoFileWriter uses the FFMPEG library

    The two important parameters for each are FrameRate and BitRate, experiment with those to get the quality/size trade-off you need.

    FYI, AForge also includes a MJPEG client and a library for video motion detection.