[XviD-devel] does xvid have fine granularity scalability?
Michael Militzer
michael at xvid.org
Mon Jun 6 12:09:28 CEST 2005
Hi,
Quoting Devon <rueckner at gmail.com>:
> I'm working on a distributed video streaming project. We are in need
> of a good open source encoder/decoder, and xvid seemed like a
> potential candidate.
>
> However, we want to take advantage of the FGS capability defined in
> MPEG-4 in order to achieve a scalable bitrate. Is this implemented in
> xvid?
No, it's not. The XviD encoder only supports MPEG-4 SP and ASP features
(formerly also ARTS).
> If not, could anyone point me to a license-free MPEG-4 encoder/decoder
> that does have FGS?
Hm, unfortunately I'm not aware of a free MPEG-4 codec supporting FGS.
This however does not necessarily mean that no such codec would exist.
Probably someone else here knows more than me?
Regards,
Michael
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