Hi, On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 23:22 -0800, Ralph Giles wrote: > On 10-Nov-08, at 10:07 PM, Stefan de Konink wrote: > > > Now what is the reason for using it when dirac and schro are available > > inside ffmpeg already? > > Our experience with ffmpeg2theora has been that it's nice for people > wanting to experiment with the format to have a dedicated encoder > front end and a simpler set of options to learn. For ourselves as > developers it's been nice to really nail down the muxing and profile > issues specific to Ogg and make sure it's working the way we want.
Another reason is that Dirac and Schroedinger are supported in FFmpeg via external libraries and are not part of the default build. So people pre-built libraries usually do not have Dirac support enabled. We plan to release binaries of ffmpeg2dirac so that end-users who don't want to go through the process of downloading and building will have an executable to work with straightaway. It will be great once there is native Dirac support in FFmpeg. Some work was done on this as part of Google SOC 2007. Going by posts on the FFmpeg developers mailing list, the work on the decoder is being revived. Regards, Anuradha ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Schrodinger-devel mailing list Schrodinger-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/schrodinger-devel
