[MEncoder-users] Need Mencoder Expert for Hire

[Corey Hickey]

Alan Cooper wrote:
> 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 ;)

I'm interested in this, but don't really have the free time to pull it 
off. I may be able to in a month or so, but if someone else wants to 
accept this offer then he/she should do so. If nobody responds, send me 
a message directly and I'll see what I can do.

-Corey