Hi Andrew, * Andrew Stevens on Saturday, November 29, 2008 at 19:07:12 +0100 > mpeg2enc author here!
Ah! Great to hear from you! >> Unfortunately I am unable to contribute constructively but I just >> wanted to send a periodic encouragement to take off with mpeg2enc >> where it was left in 2007-02-20 (last working version). > > Thanks for the encouragement. Basically mpeg2enc development has kind of > stalled due to ... (in no particular order) > > - working for a start-up > - the birth of my first child > - getting older and richer and so being able to afford to go racing > Motorcycles > - no longer doing any kind of analog video capture and so having zero use for > an mpeg-2 encoder myself and no handy source of bug-testing material. > - I got rather depressed about the embarrassing state of the "grown" C++ code > compared with my professional efforts. Looks like you are becoming more mature on every level ;-) Congrats! >> While >> this version still gives the me most satisfying results (compared >> to other tools) in dv -> dvd conversion, it would *really* be >> nice to have something with the bugs that came after ironed out! > > However... > > - the first realistic demo version of our tool is out the door > - I got fast enough on my Motorbike that going faster requires excessive > willingness to crash myself and my Motorbike > - my little son is now a bit bigger and the Christmas vacation is coming > - I want to reach some kind of closure on mpeg2enc to leave it in a > reasonable > state. Sounds all great to me, especially the last point ;-) > Here's a deal. If you can supply me with snippets of video where stuff is > going wrong I'll see if I can get the half-finished stuff in mpeg2enc working > properly. I'll have some testing material next week; and unless your recent commit already solved all problems, you may be sure that I continue nagging you. Thank you very very much for coming back on this. > Drop me an email if you're interested... I surely am. c -- \black\trash movie _C O W B O Y_ _C A N O E_ _C O M A_ Ein deutscher Western/A German Western -->> http://www.blacktrash.org/underdogma/ccc.html -->> http://www.blacktrash.org/underdogma/ccc-en.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Mjpeg-users mailing list Mjpeg-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mjpeg-users
