KVCD Encoder / SAMPEG-2
 

I've found some references to this (apparently it's good quality):

http://rachmaninoff.informatik.uni-mannheim.de/sampeg/

But I can't open the site :(

This is the most recent I've found at wayback machine

http://web.archive.org/web/200312031...eim.de/sampeg/

The good thing is it's open source, and there are a couple of articles explaining the algorithms.

Hi GFR,

I had seen those sources, but the quality was pretty bad.
Lately, I have been looking at the "Berkeley Encoder" sources.
http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/frame/resea...eg_encode.html
This code framework would an ideal stepstone to build an encoder, specially because of the license it carries.
But still, there's no way around the MPEG-2 patent for any encoder implementation, and that's what worries me.

-kwag