[MPlayer-G2-dev] Information about video coding

D Richard Felker III dalias at aerifal.cx
Tue Dec 23 02:10:26 CET 2003


[this bounced once, resending]

On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 11:19:45AM -0600, Joey Parrish wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 03:19:53PM +0100, Attila Kinali wrote:
> > Heyo,
> > 
> > As i keep asking more and more questions about video coding
> > the last few days, i'd like to ask whether there are any
> > good resources (webpages, papers, books) about video coding,
> > especialy in practical applications not only academic stuff.
> 
> Similar topic, I"ve just been reminded...
> I've wanted to encode a video composed of lots of scrolling
> ascii-art text.  Ånyone know of a codec that is designed for
> stupid things like this without insanely high bitrates?
> (Very simple images, but very little in common between frames.)

Yes, it's called "text file with ansi escapes"... :)))))

Rich






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