On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 03:59:45PM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > I am looking for an appropriate mailing list to discuss miscellaneous > video encoding, video editing, video hardware for Unix-type systems. Does > anyone have any suggestions? I'm new, so this list has a bit too much information for me :) > I am working on writing an X-based screen capture utility for video (or > animation). (If I am working on something that has already been done, > please let me know. Thanks.) Looks rough. Have you looked at the code from `import' from the ImageMagick packages? > Does anyone have any suggestions on what type of format to save the video > data in? (I don't want to save one frame per file.) <snip> > I am looking at the Berkeley mpeg_encoder. I am a little unfamiliar MPEG > II -- is it lossless or does it lose data from every load and then resave > (using an editor)? > > Should I look at a different type of video format (such as AVI)? If so, > what formats should I use? > > Does anyone have any suggestions on what encoders (or encoder libraries) I > should use? Any URLs that I should look at? Loki has a fairly interesting MJPEG implementation that they've written, have a look at http://www.lokigames.com/development/smjpeg.php3 . It may or may not be easier to implement than MPEG1 or 2, and the loss levels should be adjustable by you. Ideally, you probably want loss-free encoding (to make sure that the fonts and small images in your grabs don't get fuzzy), but that could take a lot of disk bandwidth and processor time. As others on this list can account for, I'm just a crack smoker :). -- -=|JP|=- "This space intentionally left blank." Jon Pennington | Debian 2.4 -o) dren@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | Auto Enthusiast /\\ Kansas City, MO, USA | Proud Husband and Father _\_V
