[MPlayer-dev-eng] GPU encoding support

[Alexandre Atoji]

Thank you for your reply!
I'll read more about it and Ffmpeg.

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Uoti Urpala <uoti.urpala at pp1.inet.fi>wrote:

> On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 15:16 -0200, Alexandre Atoji wrote:
> > I'm going to the last year of my computer science course and next year I
> > have to make a one-year work to finish it. I was thinking to add GPU
> support
> > for mencoder as this work.
> > Is this feature useful to mplayer community?
>
> Whether a GPU encoder is useful depends on whether it is competitive
> with existing software encoders in speed and resulting encode quality.
>
> Trying to write an encoder as an extension to MEncoder would IMO be a
> bad idea. MEncoder is mostly unmaintained and in bad shape. It's better
> to write a standalone encoder and then handle integration into other
> software later (if the encoder is actually worth it).
>
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