On 1/24/06, Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> the ironic thing is, both mythtv and mencoder use the ffmpeg libraries for
> compressing/decompressing video.
I haven't used either TV encoding package, but I've seen a lot of
ffmpeg in action and it's not the most optimized thing, compared to
commercial encoders.
Not really. it's plenty fast enough for some things ( e.g. Xvid encoding), but pretty bad at other things (e.g. AMR-NB) due to use of reference codecs.
But (to badly paraphrase Manuel Quezon), better an encoder that runs like Hell by the Free Software community, than an encoder that runs like Heaven by closed-source vendors. :D
of course, many of the algorithms implemented in ffmpeg are patented, so...
viva la revolucion!
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