[Ffmpeg-devel] Native H.264 encoder

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 06:10:01PM +0100, Luca Abeni wrote:
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> > It
> > seems most codecs reuse parts of MpegEncContext code combined with some
> > conditional parts added to mpegvideo.c. I would prefer to see the motion
> > estimation code separated from the codecs,
> In snow.c, I found the following comment at line 471:
>     MpegEncContext m; // needed for motion estimation, should not be
> used for anything else, the idea is to make the motion estimation
> eventually independant of MpegEncContext, so this will be removed then
> (FIXME/XXX)
> 
> Since it seems that making the motion estimation codec independant of
> MpegEncContext is in the plans (and can be useful for the whole ffmpeg
> project), I'll try to have a better look to see how to do this (as soon
> as I'll have some time :)...
> I do not promise anything, but I'll try.

i would be very happy if someone did seperate the motion estimation code
from MpegEncContext and make it more generic ...


> 
> Anyway, do you agree that motion estimation can be the cause of the
> artefacts in the encoded H.264 video? Or is this a bad interpretation?

a simple way to test is to encode at very high quality / very low quantizer
if any artifacts remain then its not motion estimation ...

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