Hi Andrei,
> Well, yeah, but code doesn't change all by itself - there are people
> making the decisions, etc. Basically, it looks like mjpegtools has a too
> long development cycle. All the good stuff is always in CVS, and it
> stays there for years.
I guess you're probably still a young fellow ... ;-). As ever in SW
engineering its not the *deciding* (despite what countless books for
non-coding project managers and bosses might lead you to believe) its the
*doing*. And *doing* needs oodles of time. When I was young(er) and still
working as an Academic I could really motor along on my open-source projects.
Seriously, as you get older you not only have less time but also more money
to indulge in other distractions.
I would *love* to get a solid 8-16 hours a week in on mpeg2enc/mplex like I
used to years ago but I now have (in no particular order): a wife, a young
son (cute!), a day-job doing equally interesting SW engineering, a house, and
enough money to indulge my motorcycle-racing habit. If I'm honest another
factor is that technology has moved on and I simply no longer *need* to
compress recorded video for myself anymore (all MPEG-2 DTV, soon H.264 HDTV).
Longer term the future for 'on-computer' video is clearly with H.264. MPEG-2
lives primarily so folks can burn standard DVDs. Its like (S)VCD. 2-3
years back a hot topic. Now... nil interest.
If I could find an interested person wanting to take over as 'owner' I'd
gladly invest time in explanation/support to do a proper hand over. So far
no interest. Hopefully (I work from home nowadays) I'll have a bit more time
this winter and push mpeg2enc forward again!
cheers,
Andrew
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