Took some video with my phone (HTC hero) and it ended up being encoded in 3gp. When I went to use it with my opencv code: BUM!!!! it exploded. So I chose to change from 3gp to AVI, which I believe opencv can handle. Found this nifty command:
ffmpeg -i clip.3gp -f avi -vcodec xvid -acodec mp3 -ar 22050 file.aviSince I didn’t really care for sound I shortened it to:
ffmpeg -i clip.3gp -f avi -ar 22050 file.aviIt gave me an AVI file that mplayer could read. I’ll see if opencv can handle it. Many thx to [1]. His post showed me how to do it.
[1] http://goinggnu.wordpress.com/2007/02/13/convert-avi-to-3gp-using-ffmpeg/
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