[MEncoder-users] Need Mencoder Expert for Hire

[Alan Cooper]

Mencoder-users:

My company is looking to hire an mencoder expert to help out with
intelligently sensing incoming video modes/types (especially
interlaced/mixed/telecine video types), and then applying the best video
filter chains to the type of the video.  We can do all this by hand of
course, but with virtually thousands of hours of video coming in per month
to transcode, we are looking to build an automated solution for this.

No programming is required but a good knowledge of how to squeeze the best
looking video out of virtually any type of incoming media (especially
interlaced/mixed/telecine video types) is definitely wanted.

What we are looking to do is run mplayer with no video output (-benchmark,
maybe?) and parse the results of the video types as well as the frame
"weirdness" from the output for the entire file.  Using that we are going to
develop a "fingerprint" of the incoming video type, and then from that apply
the most intelligent video filter we can against that type of video.

The program we make will look something like this (psuedo-code), we will
write the perl/python to make this happen.

1) Pull video off filesystem queue
2) Fingerprint the video using mplayer/mencoder to find what type of mess of
a video we are dealing with
3) Using that information build an mencoder command line with the best video
filters for that type of media
4) Start the encode
5) Finish the encode, enjoy the best possilbe looking video
6) Start again.

We are willing to pay good contractor rates, and think the project would
take a skilled mencoder/mplayer geek 10-20 hours for the contract.

Please respond to Alan Cooper (nerolabs at gmail.com).

Thank you.  No flames please ;)

Alan

PS: I heard rcooper was a pretty good expert from the guys at mplayerdev on
freenode.  You around man?