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<p>In a security app, I have input from 4 (or more) IP cameras, each
giving h264 2 h264 streams: One at 1280x960, the other at 640x480<br>
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<p>I need to do two things independently to these streams:</p>
<p>1) "burn" a visual timestamp into the 1280x960 images (subtitles
not good enough; unfortunately, this is a requirement made by the
client, and is non-negotiable)</p>
<p>2) multiplex sets of 4 640x480 stream into one 1280x960 stream
that shows all 4 at the same time (visual timestamp not required
in this mode, but if can be added it is a bonus)</p>
<p>My only solution right now is to decode all streams, manipulate
the pictures according to the requirements, and re-encode. This
requires tremendous amounts of CPU (decode 4 1280x960 streams,
decode 4 640x480 streams, encode 5 1280x960 streams; blitting the
timestamp doesn't take much, and memory copies can be avoided, but
don't cost much anyway. encoding is the culprit)</p>
<p>Is there anything better that can be done? </p>
<p>e.g., for (2) there might be a way to multiplex macroblocks from
different pictures, without actually decoding them to image and
re-encoding (thus avoiding the motion compensation estimation,
which is super expensive, and the effects of requantization)</p>
<p>for (1), there might be a way to increase the picture size to e.g
1280x1000, and somehow encode the timestamp into the new 40 pixels
(again, without decoding and re-encoding everything?)</p>
<p>And assuming that I have to re-encode, is there a some
hw-assisted encoder supported by ffmpeg that would be able to do
this encoding in real time and without eating too many watts?<br>
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<p>I have asked some of these questions before in this thread
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://www.mail-archive.com/libav-user@ffmpeg.org/msg00578.html"><http://www.mail-archive.com/libav-user@ffmpeg.org/msg00578.html></a>,
but there wasn't a reasonable solution.</p>
<p><br>
Thanks in advance,</p>
<p>Camera Man<br>
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