[Ffmpeg-devel] VP6 encoder

[Chris Dolan]

On Oct 21, 2006, at 11:55 AM, Rob wrote:

> hello all,
>
> the VP6 decoder is really interesting. Im glad to be able to decode  
> Flash 8 FLV files and generate serverside thumbnails out of them  
> and convert them to MPEG-2 for DVD usage and such.
>
> I'm also really interested in the encoder. I have been using all  
> these On2 products, but none of them is scriptable except for the  
> ON2 Flix Encoder Engine - which is ridicilously expensive. I do  
> have their desktop application to encode but still this is super  
> slow. FFMpeg was my tool of choice for FLV7 encoding.
>
> Will we see a VP6 encoder in FFMpeg soon so that we can use FFMpeg  
> for encoding FLV8 style video? This would be soooo wicked.
> Im even willing to sponsor (not that I have any money) but I would  
> if I had!!!

I don't want to shill for On2 or denigrate FFmpeg, of course, but I'd  
like to correct an apparent exaggeration in your message.  The On2  
Flix Quicktime component is programmable and reasonably priced at $100.

Chris

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