> Is anyone here working on optimizing MSSG mpeg2 encoder ....? > please let me if anyone is. I would also like to know if there is any > optimized software encoder available ... Perhaps you'll have a look at my MPEG encoder at: http://rachmaninoff.ti.uni-mannheim.de/sampeg/index.html It's an implementation from scratch with some MMX code and better motion estimation algorithms. Furthermore it runs parallelized on SMPs and uses adaptive quantization and scene change detection. To make this post on-topic for this list, the encoder also supports real-time encoding through V4L. Sounds so great, that there has to be a problem. Ok, it's not open-source yet. But there is a binary on the web-page. I'm at the moment checking the possibilities what to do with this software in the future. One possibility is that I'll start an MPEG-4 encoder project on top of it. Anyway, expect the project to become open-source in about 3 weeks. Greetings Dirk ---------------------------------------------------------------- Dirk Farin University Mannheim / Dept. Circuitry and Simulation B 6,26 EG, room 0.10 / D-68131 Mannheim / Germany email: farin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ----------------------------------------------------------------