Re: video transcoder question

["ensonic" <ensonic hora-obscura de>]

Hi,

On 10:23:48 pm 23/06/2011 "Ze'evi, Shahar" <szeevi Tycoint com> wrote:
>
> I&#8217;m new to this group and am looking for video transcoder.  A
> quick background:  I have a Linux based video recording server
> (recording video from camera on to hard drives) using M-Jpeg, MPEG4 and
> H.264 codec&#8217;s (camera dependent). My need is to provide a remote
> user, communicating through a narrow bandwidth connection (DSL, Mobil,
> T1, etc&#8230;), the ability to view the recorded video transcoded from
> mega-quality to whatever bandwidth is available (setup can be done
> manually by the user of what BW is available does not need to be
> automatic). Is there anything I can use to integrate into the recorder
> SW and the client SW to make this seamless to the user? Thanks,
 Shahar

you can use gstreamer to do the transcoding. we do have a high level api
called encodebin, a pair of decodebin + encodebin can transcode between all
kind of video formats. You can have a look at transmageddon
(http://www.linuxrising.org/) as and example python app using it.

Stefan