[FFmpeg-devel] Transcoding using FFmpeg

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 11:29:59AM +0800, www.whu wrote:
> Hi All!
> I am a gradute student who is working on digtial video transcoding. 
> I have found that FFmpeg is a powerful transcoding tool. So I decide to build my
> transcoding project on the basis of  it.
> But I got some problems.
> 1. I am not familiar with coding on  Linux. I spent lots of time on Windows 
> IDE like Visual C++/ Turbo C etc. So I got confused when I unpacked the 
> whole stuff.

and when you first tried to use vc++ you where not confused?


> I want to know if you use an IDE such as Eclipse or you just coding the project
> in the terminal using an edtior like VI.
> 
> Any advice will be very appreciated.

if you want a editor with a intuitive GUI, id suggest to try kwrite, it
doesnt have the feature set vi and emacs have though ...


> 
> 2. Libavcodec contains a lot of codecs. I want to modify them and add my own property.
> For example: Transcoding from MPEG2 to MPEG4.
> I have to extract motion vectors from the MPEG2 code stream and then put them into MPEG4 
> code stream. However, MPEG2 and MPEG4 are different coding standards, so simply reusing 
> motion vectors will cause a lot problems.
> And also, I think analysing libavcodec is a very hard job.
> Is there any document about libavcodec?
> 
> 3. Transcoding in FFmpeg is performed as  decoding then encoding. The computational
> complexity is very high compared with the partly decoding then partly encoding procedure.

see -me_threshold and -mb_threshold


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Michael     GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB

Its not that you shouldnt use gotos but rather that you should write
readable code and code with gotos often but not always is less readable
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