[FFmpeg-soc] Support for JPEG 2000 image files

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 12:22:26PM +0100, Peter B. wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I hope this is the right list, since FFmpeg's JPEG 2000 support is
> always mentioned as Summer-of-Code project.
> 
> I am currently evaluating the usage of free (as in free speech, not free
> beer) software tools (e.g. FFmpeg) for a national, long term video
> archive project. The plan is to store the archival copy of a video not
> as a video file, but each frame separately - using JPEG 2000 lossless
> compression.
> Therefore we'd need a tool that could handle encoding and decoding of
> JPEG 2000 image sequences to and from video files.
> 
> My question now is:
> What is the current status of FFmpeg's JPEG 2000 support, and would it
> be possible to fund FFmpeg developers to finalize that feature - and if
> "yes", whom should I contact?

jpeg2000 is a poor choice as lossless codec, there are better ones like
jpeg-LS which is simpler and has better performance

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