Re: Manipulating mpeg
Mike Martin <[email protected]>
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On 4 September 2010 22:07, Elio Blanca <[email protected]> wrote: > >> also why look farther than ffmpeg? > > Well, there are several mpeg2 encoders out there. > I'm actually using hcenc which runs flawlessly under wine (I know, it's not free as in freedom, it's > just free as in free beer) because it's quite simple and it creates well looking video streams and > further the author aims to DVD-compliancy. > I know ffmpeg project provides the widest support for any video manipulating need, it's a swiss army > knife for video conversion. Avidemux includes it as an encoding engine and I used it some time ago. > There is also an mpeg2enc encoder into mjpegtools, also used by avidemux for mpeg2 encoding. > > Now, I'm just curious. Are there other free/open encoders out there? > Which one is the fastest? Which one provides the best video quality? Do they create valid mpeg2 > streams (with respect to DVD compliancy)? Do they behave the same with any video content (live/anime)? > > I mean, this is a wide, deep comparison which would require a couple of months for a `normal' user > to run (maybe more). Many times in the past few years I saw this kind of test for mp3/vorbis/aac > encoders, so I'm just wondering why nobody did this with mpeg2. > > ...Or maybe I'm the only one raising stupid questions... ;-) > > Elio > again ffmpeg If you want a frontend to ffmpeg try mine http://www.burn360.sourceforge.net (gtk-perl) Linux specific but the ffmpeg part is cross-platform New release being prepared ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: Show off your parallel programming skills. Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd