Opened 6 years ago

Closed 5 years ago

#6821 closed enhancement (fixed)

SER file format

Reported by: Michal Powalko Owned by:
Priority: wish Component: avcodec
Version: git-master Keywords: SER
Cc: Blocked By:
Blocking: Reproduced by developer: no
Analyzed by developer: no

Description

Hi FFmpeg developers,

I would like to propose integration of SER file format into FFmpeg. SER file format is a simple image sequence format, similar to uncompressed films. SER files are used for solar, lunar and planetary astronomy-imaging.

Authors homepage: http://www.grischa-hahn.homepage.t-online.de/astro/ser/
Technical description: http://www.grischa-hahn.homepage.t-online.de/astro/ser/SER%20Doc%20V3b.pdf

Example SER files:
https://github.com/cgarry/ser-player/releases/download/v1.4.0/Jup_200415_204534_R_F0001-0300.zip
https://github.com/cgarry/ser-player/releases/download/v1.4.0/Mars_150414_002445_OSC_F0001-0500.zip

Short article about SER format used in astro: https://free-astro.org/index.php/SER
Open-source implemenation of SER player:
https://sites.google.com/site/astropipp/ser-player
https://github.com/cgarry/ser-player

Sotware that uses SER:

Lucam Recorder (v2)
AiryLab Genika Astro (v2)
Open Astro Project - oaCapture (v2)
SIRIL (v3)
FireCapture (v3)
PIPP (v3)
WinJUPOS (v3)
AutoStakkert!2 (v3)
AviStack (v2)
RegiStax (v2)
ImagesPlus (v2)
Planetary impact flashes detection with DeTeCt (v2)

Best regards
Michal Powalko

Change History (3)

comment:1 by Carl Eugen Hoyos, 6 years ago

Keywords: file format removed
Type: taskenhancement

What are the typically used ColorID's?
How is the version of the SER file signaled?

comment:2 by Michal Powalko, 6 years ago

What are the typically used ColorID's?

For SER-files Version 2 it will be "MONO"; for Version 3 "RGB".

How is the version of the SER file signaled?

There is no version tag.
SER files with ColorID [0..19] are version 2.
SER files with ColorID [100..101] are version 3.

The SER format description version 3 should be taken as reference. Writing SER files should have the options for saving RGB videos:

  • lossless (as version 3)
  • with loss of information - BAYER grid (as version 2)
  • save the color channels R / G / B separately as version 2 MONO files

comment:3 by Elon Musk, 5 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed
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