[Ffmpeg-devel] Theora encoding

[Benjamin Larsson]

Paul Richards wrote:

> On 28/12/06, Stefan de Konink <skinkie at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 28 Dec 2006, Paul Richards wrote:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> > I am interested in adding Theora encoding support to Handbrake
>> > (http://handbrake.m0k.org/).  I could do this directly inside
>> > Handbrake, or I could go down a level and attempt to add it to ffmpeg
>> > (which would make more sense and benefit more people).
>> >
>> > Is anyone already thinking about Theora encoding or have advice on how
>> > it should be done?..  Or can I simply start hacking?
>> >
>> > My plan was to use libtheora from xiph for the encoding, but I see
>> > that ffmpeg has hand-rolled encoders for many of the other formats.
>> > Would using libtheora be against the "philosophy" of ffmpeg?
>>
>> ffmpeg2theora...
>>
>
>
> ffmpeg2theora uses ffmpeg for decoding arbitrary video files, and then
> uses libogg + libtheora to write out a theora ogm file.  What I would
> like to do is slightly different.  I would like to add theora encoding
> support directly to ffmpeg (well actually libavcodec) by using
> libtheora.
>
> In turn this would make it easy to add theora encoding to any app that
> uses libavcodec (eg Handbrake).
>
> Are you suggesting that using libtheora in ffmpeg is inappropriate?
> Should I be looking at using libogg + libtheora directly inside
> Handbrake instead of adding theora encoding to libavcodec?
>
>

Gluecode for theora encoding in ffmpeg would be nice. Feel free to
submit a patch.

MvH
Benjamin Larsson

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