Where to get a tutorial on the creation of an mpeg-1 video encoder? [closed]

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I am looking for educational tutorials (in C or C++) on how to create an MPEG-1 video encoder. So I need all stages - from char[][] rgb to some char [] encodedVideo. BTW someone told me that it is generally JPEG with a different encoding. Is this true? Act开发者_JAVA技巧ually there is what I need ISO/IEC TR 11172-5:1998 Information technology -- Coding of moving pictures and associated audio for digital storage media at up to about 1,5 Mbit/s -- Part 5: Software simulation but it is not for free..(

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Take a look into libav library (which is a fork of ffmpeg. It has examples, and you can find examples on google, but take a note that it is a complex library.

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You can use the GStreamer library for this. The manual for the C API can be found here.

If you want to do everything from scratch then then you'll need to study the MPEG-1 file format specification.