[Interest] MJPEG for HD video (was: libjpeg vs. libjpeg-turbo/mozjpeg)

[René J.V. Bertin]

On Tuesday May 26 2015 13:02:19 Matthew Woehlke wrote:

> - Seeking is easy; displaying a particular frame does not need knowledge
> of any other frames (unlike with other "traditional" video codecs).

And you can play backwards without extra cost, which also means that scrolling through footage is equally fast/fluid in both directions.

> pipe with ffmpeg on the other end does not encourage me to believe that
> we could encode 1080P @ 30 Hz to e.g. H.264 in real time. There's also

H.264 isn't made for real-time encoding, and requires multiple passes if you want the best result quality-wise.

RLE didn't cut it for you? ;)

R