[ 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.”