[FFmpeg-devel] Intel IPP H264 encoder

[Frank Barchard]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Jason Garrett-Glaser <
darkshikari at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 6:35 AM, Erik Van Grunderbeeck <erik at arawix.com>
> wrote:
> > http://software.intel.com/en-us/intel-ipp/
> >
> > They have more then some optimized base algo's now. These days, you get
> full
> > encoders, decoders, etc.
>
> The IPP H.264 encoder holds the honor of being the second-worst
> encoder codebase I have ever seen.
>
> It's also embarrassingly crap.
>

Although image quality is generally not as good as x264, it still has some
merit:
Encode speed is fast.
It has features not available in x264, such as high profile YUV 444 color
space

Here is a comparison of H264 encoders
http://compression.ru/video/codec_comparison/pdf/msu_mpeg_4_avc_h264_codec_comparison_2006_eng.pdf