[Ffmpeg-devel] Optimizing encoding when knowing changed area

[Loren Merritt]

On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Oleg Oksyuk wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I use ffmpeg to encode graphics animation produced by another program. The
> contains API interface that allows to get output pixmap in RGB format and
> changed area, for example (100, 100) - (200, 300).
> When encoding MPEG using FFMPEG I simply convert changed area from RGB to
> YUV each 1/30 of second. But often nothing was changed or only some small
> rectangle was changed. Are there any way to use knowledge about changed area
> to optimize encoding?

While I haven't used them myself, AVCodecContext.me_threshold and 
mb_threshold look like what you're asking for.

--Loren Merritt