Fraunhofer IIS MPEG-4 Software for Evaluation

[Hobojobo]

Here (http://www2.iis.fraunhofer.de/mpeg4software.html) you can download the mp4 player and encoder. (Doom9's news)

Has anybody already tried the encoder ?
Any opions on the quality ?
Is is another challenger for Divx and Xvid and of course the others...?

I am just curious.

[SeeMoreDigital]

Originally posted by Hobojobo
Has anybody already tried the encoder ?
Any opions on the quality ?
Is is another challenger for Divx and Xvid and of course the others...?

I am just curious. I gave it a go today.

Unfortunately it is only capable of generating 1pass CBR encodes. Albeit with AAC audio within an MP4 container!

You can't input Mpeg1 or 2 streams either. So without 2pass VBR and no direct show filters to borrow I can't see that it offers very much more than say QuickTime Pro offers!

It does however, have an very easy to use GUI though - once you get past the startup 'stream' option. Which prospective developers might want to take a look at before creating their own encoder....

Yes please. Cheers

[Selur]

looked (too) smooth and the gui really is minmalistic, one can enter the desired datarate and the keyframe distance and that's it (for video).

Cu Selur

Ps.: From the looks of it up-to-now I don't think it's challanger for DivX/Xvid/3ivx.