> If I do, then I may as well write my own encoder at that point. I've actually done this with jpeg & mpeg1. I spent maybe a hundred hours trying to get existi

> If I do, then I may as well write my own encoder at that point. I've actually done this with jpeg & mpeg1. I spent maybe a hundred hours trying to get existing libraries to play by my rules. When you completely own the implementation everything gets out of the way. I don't like that I had to do this, but it was the only way to wrap my head around the problem and bend it to my will.