[FFmpeg-user] Media Express vs FFmpeg CPU use

[Bouke]

> On 29 Apr 2021, at 08:37, Carl Zwanzig <cpz at tuunq.com> wrote:
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> On 4/28/2021 11:15 PM, Bouke wrote:
>>> Can you capture into something else and then transcode?
>> Nah, the whole idea is to be done as fast as possible, so not to transcode…
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> You _have_ to encode (not transcode), the SDI input is raw uncompressed frames ("rawvideo (UYVY / 0x59565955)"); capturing them takes no time at all, just a lot of storage space if you write to disk.

Sorry, my bad, I’ve used transcode as if it were encode...

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> This may be a simple case that one encoder is better than another.

Yes, definitly!
I just want to do ‘all’ in one pass.

Bouke

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