<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:tahoma, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><br></div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; "><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "> <div id="yiv1706161945"><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; "><div>I'm considering writing an H.264 encoder/decoder in Racket. Has anyone tried such a thing before? </div><div><br></div><div>Codecs require a lot of bit-whacking and the h264 standard is particularly convoluted. Efficiencies are obtained in C in many different and usually complex ways. Codec experts usually recommend starting at C/++ and go to assembly to extract further performance. </div><div><br></div><div>Does any one have thoughts on this? Would someone be interested in working with me on an open-source project for this? I expect an exercise like this will also push the Racket implementation to deliver higher performance, or will establish a proof point about how good the implementations is.  </div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Anurag. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div><br><br> </div> </div> </div></body></html>