About MPEG2 encoding performance

[jasonme]

Hello all,

I want to ask a question on open-source MPEG2 encoder performance. Is there a list for open source MPEG2 encoders? By now, which one have good performance on encoding MPEG2, for commercial and open source? Since I'm trying to dig deeper on efficient implementation of video encoding software, so these info are very important for me. Thank you very much for all the help!

Jason

[45tripp]

libavcodec is open source.
which basically means ffmpeg and mencoder.
a few users here swear by mencoder. if you know what you're doing you can tweak it to output encodes of exceptional quality (cost of speed).
There's also Quenc which is open source, a libavcodec gui encoder.

And there are open source frontends to the open source encoders, like favc and dvdflick.

besides libavcodec, mpeg2enc is also open source (broken),
an evolution of mssg i believe

then there's also the very cool HC, which is a freeware mpeg2 encoder.

the top commercial encoders are all very good.
procoder, tmpg, cce.
each has it's fans.

gl

[jasonme]

Thank you very much for the info.