[FFmpeg-devel] Scalable Video Encoding and FGS

[Erik van Zijst]

Loren Merritt wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Oct 2007, Erik van Zijst wrote:
>> Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>>
>> We've built a proof-of-concept encoder that scatters DCT coefficients
>> over layers (we didn't do P- or B-frames, so we were cheating a bit) and
>> that really works well.
> 
> You're cheating a lot. The complicated and inefficient part of scalable 
> coding is trying to make it compatible with inter prediction.

I know, which is why I'm so interested in taking an off-the-shelf 
scalability implementation and certainly not try to invent something new.

As I mentioned in my first mail, would anyone on the team be interested 
in adding FGS when my company would support it financially?

Erik
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