{"id":373,"date":"2016-10-26T15:52:51","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T19:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portfolios.cs.earlham.edu\/?p=373"},"modified":"2025-04-15T15:46:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T19:46:43","slug":"update-102616","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/portfolios.cs.earlham.edu\/index.php\/2016\/10\/26\/update-102616\/","title":{"rendered":"Update 10\/26\/16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After further researching open-source projects and tools that are available to me, I have decided that I will instead focus on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ffmpeg.org\/\">ffmpeg<\/a>. \u00a0It is similar to Xvid in the sense that it is an open-source project that provides codecs for compressing and decompression data, but it has better documentation and seems easier to work with.<\/p>\n<p>I have also attained several sample files and have begun experimenting with how well ffmpeg compresses them. \u00a0In order to test their compression algorithms as best as possible, I have many different types of videos for performing testing on. \u00a0One video is a black screen, and it compresses quite nicely, which makes since given that there is little randomness is the video. \u00a0Another video, which involves confetti falling, compresses poorly, since the video is much less predictable. \u00a0I plan to continue to experiment to see what ffmpeg excels at and struggles with, and I will study and evaluate its source code.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After further researching open-source projects and tools that are available to me, I have decided that I will instead focus on ffmpeg. \u00a0It is similar to Xvid in the sense that it is an open-source project that provides codecs for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/portfolios.cs.earlham.edu\/index.php\/2016\/10\/26\/update-102616\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,16,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-82","category-daniel","category-student"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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