RAW file conversion/viewing

[liquidbrain]

I was hoping someone out there could help me:

I have a 16 bit gray raw data files - containing basically n frames of (little endian) tiff images - so the .raw file is = sensor size l * w * 2bytes gray * #frames. So to make a tiff, all I'd need to do is cut the file every frame, and slap a header/footer around it. (i've already cut the file frame by frame and imported to photoshop without issue to get a single frame image).

The question I'm strugling with is: is anything available to let me play this raw file in media player (or another video player?) as-is @ 16-bit gray? Essentially it's an 'n' frame video... I can export this raw to AVI in an existing app... but it shrinks to an 8 bit-depth one (I need to preserve the bit depth). I've been looking at mjpeg/mj2k and if I can convert (lossless video needs to remain intact) here and go about it that way - that's an option. Does anyone know of a codec that can deal with single channel 16-bit gray video in raw format though? Any ideas (either someone familiar with mjpeg/mj2k, or who has other thoughts?)

Thanks!

[Cornucopia]

Quicktime supports some higher bitdepth codecs.

You can input 16bit/colorchannel PNG or TIFF images (alone or in a sequence) and output as 16bit/colorchannel PNG or TIFF image/image sequence (though this can't be upconverted from 8bit) or as 16bit PNG/TIFF-formatted frames in a QT movie, or as a standard video QT movie, using a high-bitdepth video codec such as (IIRC) Blackmagic's or the BitJazz/SheerVideo codec or 48bit AppleRGB.

You also could see what output options are available for Adobe AfterEffects (which supports 16bit/colorchannel).

Scott