[FFmpeg-devel] FFMPeg feature requests (AVCHD demuxing, decoding and H.264 multithreading) and how to proceed with paying for development

[Robert Krüger]

Thanks for the information!

Benjamin Larsson wrote:
> Robert Kr?ger wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a number of features which I would like to see completed in 
>> FFMPeg and judging from the list archives
>> - they do not have a high priority for the ffmpeg development community
>> - it is not uncommon to pay for the development of features
>>
>> So, how do I go about this? Is there someone who is the project lead who 
>> will negotiate this and the money (provided we agree on something) will 
>> go to the project as a whole or will I have to find a single developer 
>> who offers to complete the features? I really have no idea and would be 
>> grateful for any advice.
>>
>> The features (I think most of them have been requested before)
>> 1) AVCHD demuxing: I want to be able to demux an m2ts file (from a Sony 
>> camcorder) into an MP4 container (no transcoding!) which currently fails 
>> with
>>
>> error, non monotone timestamps 1>= 1
>> av_interleaved_write_frame(): Error while opening file
>>
>> 2) AVCHD interlaced decoding: The Sony Camcorders I have to work with 
>> produce 1080i material only. That's why I have no choice. I want to be 
>> able to transcode with FFMeg. One answer on this list was that support 
>> for this would be a boring task with low priority. Would anyone be 
>> willing to put a pricetag on this? About how many days of work are we 
>> talking? Some postings (codecs are not my area of expertise so I might 
>> misjudge this) a few months ago indicated that it should be doable with 
>> a reasonable amount of work (whateve that means).
>>
>> 3) H.264 multithreaded encoding: I'm not sure but this is currently not 
>> supported, is it? What I need is to be able to use all the processor 
>> power I have on multicore systems to accelerate the transcoding of a 
>> single file, as I think the encoding is probably the bottleneck, and 
>> what I'm looking for is fast transcoding times (possibly less than 
>> realtime for transcoding 1080i material to say 480p).
>>   
> 
> FFmpeg uses x264 and http://www.videolan.org/developers/x264.html claims 
> that it supports parallel encoding.
> 
> MvH
> Benjamin Larsson
> 
> 
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