FFmbc - A Broadcast Media Alternative to FFmpeg

[ Thanks to PhillC for this link. ]

"Why would we want to use an Open Source transcoding tool in a predominantly proprietary video production environment? The answer is simple. Every commercial product we've investigated (Telestream's Episode Engine and Flip Factory, Rhozet's Carbon Coder, Digital Rapid's Streamz) wanted to transcode our MPEG2 source file to IMX, rather than simply re-wrap the essence into IMX. Transcoding takes a considerable amount of time and will always lower the quality of the final output, no matter how minutely. FFmbc instead took our video and audio essence, extracted it from the MPEG2 Transport Stream and re-wrapped it all to IMX D10."

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