[PD] gem codec basic review

[marius schebella]

I would say it also depends on what you want to do with the video.
if you want to do scratching/forward backward, not all codecs will be 
able to do that. (am I wrong?)
at least make sure that you don't use keyframes for that.
marius.

IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
> patrick wrote:
>> hi,
>>
>> i am on linux running the very last version of gem from cvs. i am trying 
>> to find a good codec for gem. here's my basic research:
>>
>> ---------------------------------------
>> the best codec for quicktime is jpeg:
>> transcode -i yourvideo -y mov,null -F jpeg,,jpeg_quality=70 -o gem.mov
>>
>> gem cpu usage is 38%
>> mplayer cpu usage is 27%
>> ffplay cpu usage is 16%
>> lqtplay cpu usage is 1% **
>>
>> * lqtplay seems to make a excellent job for decoding is own codec. would 
>> it be possible to make a pix_qt based on the source of this player???
>>
> 
> which coded is Gem using to decode the mov?
> if it is quicktime4linux, then the results for _decoding_ should not 
> differ so much.
> 
> apart from the fact that Gem uses openGL to display the video, which is 
> portentially slower than xv-overlay...could you test to only decode the 
> videos with [pix_film], without any [pix_texture] and compare these?
> and put your video-files online so other people can participate in the 
> review?
> 
> 
> fmar
> IOhannes
> 
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