[FFmpeg-devel] Transcoding architecture

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Michael Niedermayer <michaelni <at> gmx.at> writes:

> On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 01:58:41PM +0300, Anatoly Nenashev wrote:
> > Hi!
> > In some situations it is possible to convert frame from one format to  
> > another without full decoding and encoding.
> > For example, MxPEG can be easily transformed in MJPEG and on the  
> > contrary. There is some publications about H263 and MPEG4 transcoders to  
> > H264.

Just for completeness:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.devel/17074

> > Is there some way to integrate such transcoders in FFmpeg?
> 
> 1. bitstream filters

Are they allowed to change the codec_id?

Carl Eugen