[gst-devel] Cheese, netbooks and resource hungry encoders

[Erik Andrén]

2009/7/6 Filippo Argiolas <filippo.argiolas at gmail.com>:
> Hey all,
> I need some suggestion from you video encoding experts.
> Recently we received several reports in bugzilla about Cheese not
> being able to do live video recording on low power cpus (like atom and
> in general netbooks). At the moment we record videos with a pretty
> standard pipeline, theoraenc, vorbisenc, oggmux.
> Do you have any suggestion about less cpu avid encoders? We used those
> ones because they are free but if they don't work it could be worth
> adding other options (ideally we'd add DeviceProfiles support when
> it'll be in a good enough shape).
> I did a quick test with several encoders and it seems that ffenc_mjpeg
> with a medium-high bitrate consumes at least 60% less than theoraenc
> with default settings. Could it be a good alternative? Any other idea?
>
> Thanks!
> Filippo
>

Recording in a lower resolution should lower the cpu requirements.

Best regards,
Erik

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