[MEncoder-users] FGS (Fine Granular Scalability) in mencoder

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 5/11/06, Guilherme Dutra Gonzaga Jaime <gdjaime at land.ufrj.br> wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
>    I know that MPEG4 includes a neat feature that enables a user to
> encode a input video stream to an output MPEG4 stream which includes a
> base layer and a enhacement layer.
>    The base layer is a (generally) low quality stream and the enhacement
> layer includes the bits necessary to increase the video quality provided
> by the base layer.
>    A video server (stored stream) may send the base layer tot he client
> and then choose how much of the enhacement layer to send (i.e.: To fit
> to the network conditions).
>    I've looking for the right options on the command line guides of
> mencoder to turn this feature ON, but I failed to do so. The only thing
> I think is near to this idea is the "two pass" coding presented by many
> "howto"s.
>   Is there anyone who could give me some information about enabling the
> MPEG4 FGS feature through mencoder?

Sadly, I don't think any codec supported by mencoder can do it.

Guillaume

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