[FFmpeg-devel] (new) intermediate codec

[Luca Barbato]

On 03/09/2011 10:51 PM, Lars T?uber wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> this is a tentative request for a general purpose intermediate video codec within the ffmpeg project.
> I'd like to sponsor it's developement to a certain amount.
> 
> It should feature the following:
> - intracoded only (possible)
> - lossless coding (possible)
> - multithreaded encoding
> - multithreaded decoding
> - supported formats:
> --- main integer colorspaces: GRAY, RGB, YUV, RGBA, YUVA (1, 3, 4 (or more) planes)
> --- main color depths: 8bit, 16bit (both full scaled)
> --- main subsamplings for yuv: 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4
> 
> e.g.
> RGB24, ARGB32, RGB48, (ARGB64?)
> YUV420, YUVA444, YUV422P16, (YUVA420P16?)
> GRAY8, GRAY16, Y400A
> 
> As an extra bonus it could be fast, but this is less important
> 
> I often use the HuffYUV codec. But it supoorts only a small renage of color spaces/depths.
> I don't need the requested features yet, but I like the idea to never need to think again if this used codec supports the video format I got from a cam I own (in future).
> Maybe this HuffYUV codec or its enhanced ffvhuff version is a good starting point and it could easily be enhanced further to support all my requests?
> On the other hand there is the lagarith codec, which seems to compress better and is faster. But ffmpeg lacks an encoder for it yet.
> 
> Or maybe a new codec written from scratch is less work?

Did you try ffv1?

> 
> As stated above I'd donate some money.

Nice =)

> 
> What do you think about this? Maybe this could become a GSoC project?

If there is somebody willing to mentor it sure.

> 
> Lars
> 
> PS: I attached a small patch for huffyuv.c

Thank you =)

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Luca Barbato
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