Re: [libdv-dev] python bindings for libdv

[Roman S. <rv...@su...>]

On Oct 29, 2007, at 4:32 PM, David McNab wrote:

> On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 16:00 +0800, Roman Shaposhnik wrote:
>> I believe that libdv has entered a sustaining only mode. The DV
>> development
>> has moved to the FFmpeg project: http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu. There's
>> much
>> more functionality in ffmpeg's DV codec than there is in libdv. One
>> of these
>> days it may even support DVHD.
>>
>>    On top of that the quality of libdv encoding is quite bad.
>>
>>    With that in mind, perhaps looking into FFmpeg might make more
>> sense. Just
>> my 2c.
>
> One thing libdv has that ffmpeg's libavcodec/libavformat don't - a
> coherent and easily-learned API.

   True. But I thought the whole point of your exercise was to provide
a python API. Which means that you can very well do the "API  
translation". ;-)

   Seriously, though, I've been thinking about creating libdv2 based on
the FFmpeg code that I wrote. That item, however, always gets
pushed to the end of my TODO list :-(

Thanks,
Roman.