title: How to encode grayscale video streams to MPEG-1 with FFmpeg?
body: <p>I've got a grayscale video stream coming off a Firewire astronomy camera, I'd like to use FFmpeg to compress the video stream but it will not accept single byte pixel formats for the MPEG1VIDEO codecs. How can I use the FFmpeg API to convert grayscale video frames into a frame format accepted by FFmpeg?</p>