[gst-devel] Best encoder for streaming video?

[Olivier Crête]

On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 14:18 -0600, Merrick Fonnesbeck wrote:
> I am writing a video conferencing application for the Nokia N800/N810
> devices that stream video between two devices, and am currently using
> the hantro4200enc encoder in my GStreamer pipeline to encode the video
> before sending it out.  The video appears on the other side very
> choppy and pixelated, and I am wondering if I am using the right
> encoder or whether there is a better encoder that would compress my
> video better to give me a cleaner video?  I got the code initially
> from the following wiki post telling me how to stream video from the
> Nokia devices.
> 
> http://maemo.org/community/wiki/howtostreamvideo/
> 
> If there is a better way let me know, thanks.

Is it any worse than the built-in call application? Because thats close
to the best you can get out of this device.

You can probably play with the parameters of the hantro4200enc element,
but it shouldn't change much...

-- 
Olivier Crête
olivier.crete at collabora.co.uk
Collabora Ltd
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