On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 03:59:45PM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> I am looking for an appropriate mailing list to discuss miscellaneous
> video encoding, video editing, video hardware for Unix-type systems. Does
> anyone have any suggestions?
I'm new, so this list has a bit too much information for me :)
> I am working on writing an X-based screen capture utility for video (or
> animation). (If I am working on something that has already been done,
> please let me know. Thanks.)
Looks rough. Have you looked at the code from `import' from the ImageMagick packages?
> Does anyone have any suggestions on what type of format to save the video
> data in? (I don't want to save one frame per file.)
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> I am looking at the Berkeley mpeg_encoder. I am a little unfamiliar MPEG
> II -- is it lossless or does it lose data from every load and then resave
> (using an editor)?
>
> Should I look at a different type of video format (such as AVI)? If so,
> what formats should I use?
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions on what encoders (or encoder libraries) I
> should use? Any URLs that I should look at?
Loki has a fairly interesting MJPEG implementation that they've written, have a look
at http://www.lokigames.com/development/smjpeg.php3 . It may or may not be easier to
implement than MPEG1 or 2, and the loss levels should be adjustable by you. Ideally,
you probably want loss-free encoding (to make sure that the fonts and small images in
your grabs don't get fuzzy), but that could take a lot of disk bandwidth and processor
time.
As others on this list can account for, I'm just a crack smoker :).
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