[FFmpeg-devel] Scalable Video Encoding and FGS

[Loren Merritt]

On Thu, 11 Oct 2007, Erik van Zijst wrote:
> Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>
> We've built a proof-of-concept encoder that scatters DCT coefficients
> over layers (we didn't do P- or B-frames, so we were cheating a bit) and
> that really works well.

You're cheating a lot. The complicated and inefficient part of scalable 
coding is trying to make it compatible with inter prediction.

--Loren Merritt