[mythtv] Anyone working on direct MPEG2 encoding?

[Geoffrey Hausheer]

On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 23:53:17 +0000, "Ed Wildgoose" said:
> Have you seen that there is a new technique out, commonly referred to as 
> tcrequent.  The basic idea is to keep the motion vectors from the 
> initial encode (which is the slow bit to calculate) and just change the 
> quantisation level.  The upshot is that you can "reencode" your mpeg2 
> stream pretty much as fast as you can read and write the data.
> 
You mentioned this before.  I'll probably look at it once the other
mpeg2->mpeg2 stuff is robust enough.  I didn't find the 'transcode'
source to be particularly easy to comprehend when I looked at it earlier.
 But it should be very easy to add per-frame processing to the flow.

.Geoff