Re: video transcoder question

[Stefan Kost <ensonic hora-obscura de>]

On 06/27/11 06:51, Ze'evi, Shahar wrote:
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> Thanks for the info. I did look at transmageddon, got this group info form through their support site. Did I understand correctly that the transmageddon solution is based on the encodebin?
transmaggedon is using gstreamers encodebin. I would recommend
gstreamer-devel as a mailing list. Besides using
irc://irc.freenode.net/#gstreamer is a more timly discussion channel.

Stefan
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> Can I use the encodebin/transmageddon as a solution stack? Or do I need to develop around it as a proxy server?
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> From: ensonic [mailto:ensonic hora-obscura de]
> Sent: Thu 6/23/2011 5:36 PM
> To: Ze'evi, Shahar
> Cc: gnome-multimedia gnome org
> Subject: Re: video transcoder question
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> Hi,
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> 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
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> 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.
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> Stefan
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